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The Amazon suffered the greatest devastation in 15 years: almost 3 football fields per day, says Imazon

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Deforestation in the Amazon in 2022 was the highest recorded in 15 years, warns monitoring by the Institute for Man and the Environment of the Amazon (Imazon). Between January and December, 10.573 km² were devastated — the equivalent of cutting down almost three thousand football fields of forest per day.

Last year also recorded the 5th consecutive annual record for deforestation. Over the last four years (2019-2022), it reached 35.193 km² — an area that exceeds the size of two Brazilian states: Sergipe (21 thousand km²) and Alagoas (27 thousand km²).

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“We hope this was the last deforestation record reported by our satellite monitoring system, as the new government has promegiven priority to protecting the Amazon. However, for this to happen, management must seek maximum effectiveness in measures to combat devastation, such as some already announced regarding the demarcation of indigenous lands, the restructuring of inspection bodies and incentives for generating income with standing forest”, says Bianca Santos, researcher at the imazon.

Pará (3.874 km²), Amazonas (2.575 km²) and Mato Grosso (1.604 km²) remain at the top of the biggest deforesters since 2019. According to the imazon, Amazonas and Mato Grosso were the only states that had an increase in destruction compared to 2021, both in federal and state areas, being responsible for closing the accumulated Amazon on the rise.

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