This Wednesday, the Brazilian government celebrated a decline in deforestation in the Amazon, saying the good results meant that governments’ “complicity with criminals” had ended.
The government “has sent a strong signal that impunity, acquiescence and complicity between government officials and criminals can no longer be expected,” Brazil’s Environment Minister Marina Silva said at a news conference presenting summary results on deforestation in Brazil. Amazon from August 2022 to July 2023, an annual period according to the biome’s rainfall patterns.
The forest has lost 9,064 square kilometers of vegetation this year, down 21.8% from the previous year and the lowest level of devastation in five years, according to new data from the Prodes satellite system.
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