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English: Stacked horizontal bar chart showing percentages of deforestation and degradation in the Amazon rainforest, by country Source: Amazon Against the Clock: A Regional Assessment on Where and How to Protect 80% by 2025. Amazon Watch 8 (September 2022). Archived from the original on 10 September 2022. "Graphic 2: Current State of the Amazon ...
According to another research, complete Amazon deforestation will render the region itself (including 7 million square kilometers, 9 states in Brazil and 8 other countries) more or less uninhabitable as the temperature will rise by more than 4.5 degrees and rainfall will be reduced by a quart.
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as WWF have been active in the region, and WWF Brazil formed an alliance with eight other Brazilian NGOs who aimed to completely halt deforestation in the Amazon by 2015. However, deforestation continues; in July 2019, the rate reached a four-year high. [121] Deforestation has rapidly increased over 30 ...
Brazil’s deforestation surveillance year runs from August 1 to July 30. Still, much remains to be done to end the destruction and the month of July showed a 33% increase in tree cutting over ...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell by more than half in November from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, with destruction hitting its lowest level for the month in at ...
On the Cerrado, Brazil’s highly biodiverse savanna, deforestation was up 9 percent compared to last year, however. The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest, and two-thirds of it is in Brazil.
The Amazon accounts for 14 million of the 284 million acres of soy plantations in Brazil. [48] While slash-and-burn can be controlled, unskilled farmers may end up causing wildfires. Wildfires have increased as the agricultural sector has pushed into the Amazon basin and spurred deforestation. [23]
Most of Colombia's deforestation takes place in the Amazon region. However, if deforestation is expected to have fallen in 2023, destruction across the country's Amazon has risen by 40% in the ...