Brazil Deforestation Hits Record Low in 2025
Agriculture caused 99% of vegetation loss as tougher enforcement and sanctions helped drive the decline, MapBiomas said.
- Brazil's deforestation fell to its lowest level since 2019 in 2025, according to a report published Wednesday by MapBiomas, with South America's biggest country losing 985,000 hectares of native vegetation, down 20.6 percent from 2024.
- After four years of widespread logging under far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, President Luiz Inacio Lula pledged to eradicate illegal deforestation by 2030. Marcos Rosa, MapBiomas technical coordinator, told AFP that increased enforcement actions directly correlated with the decline.
- The Cerrado, a vast biodiverse savanna south of the Amazon, remained the hardest-hit biome, accounting for more than half of deforestation, while agriculture drove 99 percent of vegetation loss across Brazil's six major ecosystems.
- Lula, seeking a fourth term in October elections, has made fighting deforestation central to his administration, positioning the decline as environmental proof during his reelection campaign. Forest preservation acts as a natural carbon sink in climate warming prevention.
- The reported decline excludes forest lost to fires, though Brazil avoided major infernos in 2025 after a record fire season in 2024. Environmentalists have criticized Lula's support for a massive oil exploration project near the Amazon River mouth.
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The fact that Brazil lost less than a million hectares of native vegetation in 2025 represents a significant advance within one of the planet’s greatest environmental challenges. Nevertheless, experts warn that the rate of destruction remains very high and that important threats persist over protected ecosystems and indigenous territories. Brazil recorded its lowest level of deforestation in the last seven years, a fact that represents a signifi…
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Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon slows to lowest level in six years
Brazil cut deforestation in the Amazon to its lowest level since 2019 in 2025, with tougher environmental enforcement helping reduce forest loss even as five trees continued to be felled every second in the world’s largest rainforest.
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon drops to lowest level since 2019
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell last year to its lowest level since 2019, according to a report published Wednesday that will be seen as good news for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
In 2025, 20.6 percent less rainforest was deforested than 2024. This is the smallest deforestation area since data collection began in 2019.
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