The country lost more than 10 thousand square meters a year. km of rainforest, Telesur TV channel notes, citing Imazon data.
Brazil set a record for the area of the Amazon forest cleared in 2022. In particular, for the year the size of this area reached more than 10 thousand square meters. km. This was reported by the Latin American television channel Telesur, citing data from the Amazonian Institute of Man and the Environment (Imazon).
“Brazil broke a new record in 2022 for deforestation, losing 10,537 sq. km of forest … This is the highest figure since 2008, when the institute began collecting data,” the report said.
Imazon spokeswoman Bianca Santos said she hoped this would be the “last entry as the new government has pledged to prioritize protecting Amazon.”
The media said that Brazil in the past four years, the country has lost more than 35 thousand square meters. km of forest. This period coincided with the presidential term of Jair Bolsonaro.
The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical forest in the world, covering a significant part of the territory of several countries on the South American continent.
The area of the biome is 5.5 million square meters. km, of which almost 4.2 million sq. km is located in Brazil.
2.5 thousand species of trees grow there. It makes up about one-third of the entire tropical forest in the world, as well as 30,000 plant species (out of 100,000 species on the entire continent).
The number of species of birds and mammals in the region is about 2 thousand.
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