Deforestation in the Amazon falls 33,6% in the first half of the year, warns Inpe

The data was collected by Inpe's Real-Time Deforestation Detection System (DETER), which monitors changes in forest cover. These numbers are considered preliminary.

According to DETER, between January and June, a Amazon recorded a total of 2.649 km² of deforestation alerts, compared to 3.988 km² in the first six months of 2022. This is the smallest area devastated during this period since the first half of 2019, which was 2.446 km².

This drop in deforestation in the biome follows a 54% increase observed in the second half of 2022, when the area under deforestation alerts reached 4.803 km².

The balance for the first half of the year also reveals that Mato Grosso overtook Pará as the state with the largest area under deforestation alert, representing 34% of the total recorded.

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Devastation on the rise in the Cerrado

No Cerrado, Inpe found a 14,6% drop in devastation in June compared to the same month last year (from 1.026 km² to 876 km²).

In the semi-annual comparison, however, there was an increase of 21% compared to the first six months of 2022 (from 3.638 km² to 4.408 km²). Deforestation surpassed the previous record, set in 2018, when 3.774 km² were devastated in the first six months of the year, according to DETER.

In the case of the Cerrado, 81% of deforestation is concentrated in the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia. Among them, the greatest weight is in Bahia, which concentrates 28% of the areas under alert in the biome.

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