US EditionAmazon deforestation worsens in Brazil, Peru, data show
BRAZIL AND PERU, JUL 15 – Deforestation rose 27% in the first half of 2025, with half of the loss occurring in recently burned areas, driven by illegal mining and wildfires, officials said.
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ecotopical.comAmazon deforestation spikes as Brazil blames criminal fires
Brazil’s environmental agenda is tasting bittersweet in 2025. While the country’s northern capital city of Belém is wrapped in global expectations for hosting the COP30 U.N. climate summit in November, loud alarms have sounded in the Amazon due to a noticeable growth in deforestation in the first months of the year. In May, deforestation reached 960 square kilometres (around 370 square miles), a 92% increase compared with the same month in 2024,…
Brazil is widely known for its forests and for the diversity of life they cover. The popularity of the Amaz nai and the Atl ntica Mata, soda concentrates on the people's rich history and power in the South, formed the perception of the populace - when it is thought to preserve nature, usually thinks of forests. The law of the environment Tamb m enhances this focus, as long as the rule on the use of the native in rural properties governed by a "C…
In 2024, forest fires reached unprecedented levels throughout Latin America. A recent analysis by the Andean Amazon Monitoring Program (MAAP) accounts for this devastation caused by fire in Amazonian countries. According to the study based on satellite images, 2.8 million hectares of Amazonian tropical forests were affected by forest fires last year. The Deforestation and Fires report in Amazonia 2024 indicates that at least 95% of the fires of …
For Greenpeace, the bill that makes environmental licensing more flexible could increase the numbers The post Deforestation in the Amazon grew 27% in the first half of the year appeared first on Monitor Mercantil.
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