Deforestation in the Amazon falls 36% in the first four months

Despite the reduction of almost a third compared to the last period, the area devastated in the first four months of this year represents the third worst result in efforts to preserve the biome since 2008.

Considering only the last 16 years, the degraded area in each first four months of the year was greater not only in 2022, but also in 2021, when deforestation increased significantly, reaching 1.963 km².

Based on the analysis of satellite monitoring images, researchers from the imazon concluded that, in April this year, the drop in deforestation reached 72%, falling from 1.197 km² in April 2022 to 336 km² in the same month this year.

"The reduction observed in April is positive, however, the deforested area [in the month] was still the fourth largest since 2008 for the month”, highlights researcher Larissa Amorim, referring to the results for the same month recorded in the previous three years: 1.197 km² (2022), 778 km² (2021) and 529 km² (2020).

“This indicates that we need to implement emergency actions to monitor, identify and punish illegal deforesters in the most pressured territories, focusing on public forests that do not yet have a defined use and in protected areas, especially with the arrival of the Amazon summer, where historically deforestation tends to increasing”, adds Larissa, in a note released by the institute.

Despite deforestation in Amazon as a whole was lower in the first four months of this year, in the states of Roraima and Tocantins there was an increase in the degraded area. The “most critical situation”, according to Imazon, occurred in Roraima, where devastation increased by 73%, going from 63 km² from January to April 2022 to 107 km² in the first four months of this year.

In Tocantins, deforestation growth was around 25%, going from 4 km² from January to April 2022 to 5 km² in the same period this year.

(With Brazil Agency)

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What is reforestation?

Reforestation is a practice of recovering and restoring degraded areas through the planting of trees, aiming to reestablish forest cover and its environmental benefits. It consists of the process of reintroducing trees into areas that have been deforested, burned, affected by human activities or natural events, such as fires or landslides.

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