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Brazil's Amazon Lost Area the Size of Spain in 40 Years: Study
Livestock farming increased nearly fivefold, contributing to a 13% loss of native vegetation and a 4% rise in deforestation amid drought-driven fires, MapBiomas data shows.
- Brazil's Amazon rainforest lost 49.1 million hectares, an area roughly the size of Spain, between 1985 and 2024 according to MapBiomas data released Monday.
- This loss resulted from factors including increased livestock farming, which grew almost fivefold, and a historic drought fueling forest fires amid fluctuating deforestation rates.
- Analysis of satellite data by MapBiomas reveals that the Amazon has experienced a 13 percent decline in its native plant cover, bringing it closer to a critical threshold of 20 to 25 percent loss where it may no longer be able to sustain its rainforest ecosystem.
- Bruno Ferreira of MapBiomas warned that once vegetation loss in the Amazon reaches 20 to 25 percent, the forest can no longer maintain its rainforest characteristics, disrupting the rainfall cycle and causing large areas to shift into drier savanna ecosystems.
- The rise in deforestation during the period from late 2024 through mid-2025, along with Brazil’s role as host of the UN COP30 climate summit in Belem this November, underscore critical challenges in protecting the Amazon rainforest.
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With regard to all plant species, the Amazon rainforest has already lost 13 percent of its native vegetation since 1985, according to the Mapbiomas forest monitor report.
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The "non-return point" is close and has set up the Mapbiomas monitoring network.
·Paris, France
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Brazil, with 421 million hectares, lost between 1985 and 2024, 52 million hectares, equivalent to 5.6 million hectares greater than mainland Portugal.
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Brazilian Amazon has lost a huge area in four decades, alert the experts, who fear a point of no return for the largest tropical forest in the world Amazonian forest
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