Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Hits Highest Rate in 10 Years
▻https://www.ecowatch.com/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-2621547166.html
About 7,900 square kilometers (3,050 square miles) of forest was cleared in the Brazilian Amazon between August 2017 and July 2018, the worst annual deforestation rate in a decade, according to government data. That’s a 13.7 percent jump from the same period last year.
As Greenpeace Brazil noted, approximately 1.185 billion trees cut down in an area equivalent to the size of 987,500 soccer fields.
The disturbing news comes amid fears that Brazil’s new far-right president Jair Bolsonaro could make the situation worse due to his promise to open more of the Amazon to development.
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