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Deforestation in the Amazon falls by 11% in one year, but the increase under Bolsonaro is almost 60%

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Deforestation in the Amazon between August 2021 and July this year reached 11.568 km², according to data from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), an organization linked to the Ministry of Science and Technology. The drop is 11% compared to the same period of the previous year. The four years of Bolsonaro's government, however, saw a 59,5% increase in destruction, compared to the previous four years, under the administrations of Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer, according to a calculation made by the Climate Observatory based on official data.

It is the biggest percentage increase in a presidential term since satellite measurements began in 1988.

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Bolsonaro even surpassed the increase seen in the first FHC government, when the economic growth at the beginning of the Real Plan caused the largest deforestation in the historical series, of 29 thousand km², in 1995. The annual average under Bolsonaro was 11.396 km², compared to 7.145 km² in the previous period (2015-2018).

The States of Pará, Amazonas, Mato Grosso and Rondônia correspond to 87,89% of deforestation estimated by the Brazilian Amazon Forest Satellite Monitoring Program (Prodes), from Inpe.

Data from 2022 reveals an explosion in deforestation in Amazonas, the only one to see an increase in clear cutting this year. 2.607 km² were felled, an increase of 13% compared to 2021. Pará, even with the 21% reduction, still leads the ranking, with 4.141 km² lost in 2022.

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Prodes considers deforestation to be the complete removal of primary forest cover by clear cutting or the final stage of progressive degradation of the forest in which there is complete loss of the canopy, regardless of the future use of these areas. Prodes is responsible for official deforestation balances.

Deforestation in the new government

At the Climate Summit held this month in Egypt, COP27, the president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) promeYour zero deforestation as one of the goals of the new administration. The expectation of the international community is that Brazil will make a shift in environmental policy in the coming years.

The elected government's technical team works with a list of priorities in the environmental area, in an attempt to stop the effects of curto deadline of measures taken by the Bolsonaro government.

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