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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Deforestation in Brazil — which threatens the Amazon Rainforest, pictured above, — could hit an all-time low in the next 1-2 years, one government official said this week. (Reuters/Ueslei ...
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 ...
Satellite images taken between January and June this year show 1,500 square miles of forest in the Brazilian Amazon destroyed. This is more deforestation than in any six month period in the seven ...
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon during the first half of 2022 broke all records, a measure of the increasing destruction taking place under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro. ... Brazil also ...