Environment-Habitat Preservation: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(Created page with "[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/18/amazon-deforestation-at-highest-level-in-a-decade The Guardian 11/18/2019] Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has hit...") |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
=====Amazon deforestation 'at highest level in a decade'===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/18/amazon-deforestation-at-highest-level-in-a-decade The Guardian 11/18/2019] | [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/18/amazon-deforestation-at-highest-level-in-a-decade The Guardian 11/18/2019] | ||
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has hit the highest annual level in a decade, according to new government data which highlights the impact the president, Jair Bolsonaro, has made on the world’s biggest rainforest. | Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has hit the highest annual level in a decade, according to new government data which highlights the impact the president, Jair Bolsonaro, has made on the world’s biggest rainforest. | ||
Revision as of 10:55, 18 November 2019
Amazon deforestation 'at highest level in a decade'
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has hit the highest annual level in a decade, according to new government data which highlights the impact the president, Jair Bolsonaro, has made on the world’s biggest rainforest.
The new numbers, showing almost 10,000 sq kms were lost in the year to August, were released as emboldened farm owners scuffled with forest defenders in Altamira, the Amazonian city at the heart of the recent devastation.
The assault on the planet’s biggest terrestrial carbon sink by land-grabbers, agribusiness, miners and loggers is accelerating. In the year until 30 July 2019, 9,762 sq kms were lost, an increase of 29.5% over the previous 12 months, the Brazilian space agency INPE said.
