The Brazilian Amazon lost 10,267 kilometers of vegetation cover in 2022, an area equivalent to Lebanon and a record amount of clearing of the world’s largest rainforest in the last year of President Jair Bolsonaro.
The area of jungle in the Brazilian Amazon devastated last year is 24.9% more than in 2021 (8,219 square kilometers) and is the largest since of the year. The department began measuring so-called deforestation warnings in 2015.
So far, the year of the most deforestation has been 2019 (9,178 square kilometers), namely the first under a far-right leader whom environmentalists blame for the current crisis in the Amazon due to his anti-environment rhetoric, his defense from extraction to reserves and dismantling of controls.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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