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The effects include "severe financial losses, social setbacks, and biodiversity loss". Economic losses due to deforestation in Brazil could reach around 317 billion dollars per year, approximately 7 times higher in comparison to the cost of all commodities produced through deforestation.
Deforestation in the Gurupi Biological Reserve, Maranhão state, 2016. Deforestation in Brazil is a major issue; the country once had the highest rate of deforestation in the world. By far the most deforestation comes from cattle ranchers that clear rainforest (sometimes illegally, sometimes legally), so as to make room for sowing grass and ...
In 1960-1970, the country started to expand its infrastructure in empty areas of the country, to guarantee its occupation: at the time wars, colonizations and invasions of territories were common in the world, and Brazil wanted to ensure that the Amazon was not invaded by other countries on the grounds that it is an abandoned region, without human occupation.
Deforestation in Brazil is projected to hit a historic low by 2025, a government official told reporters this week. The president of Ibama — Brazil’s environmental enforcement agency — told ...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 30% in February from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government worked toward a pledge ...
BRASILIA (Reuters) -Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rose in July, breaking a 15-month streak of falling destruction under President Luiz Inacio da Silva, preliminary government data showed on ...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has skyrocketed to a 12-year high in 2020. Government data released on Monday (November 30) showed more than 11,000 square kilometers have been wiped ...
In April 2012 Brazil's powerful farm lobby won a long-sought victory after the National Congress of Brazil approved a controversial forestry bill that environmentalists say will speed deforestation in the Amazon as more land is opened for producing food. [5] By 2020, at least 50% of the species resident in Brazil may become extinct. [4]