Deforestation in the Cerrado increases 25% in 2022 and reaches the highest value in the last seven years

On the 30th, PRODES had already released the official estimate for Legal Amazon, which showed the loss of 11.568 km² in 2022, maintaining the high level of rates recorded in previous years. Now the bill has arrived for the Cerrado.

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

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.

The data presented shows that, in 2022, there was a 25% increase in the devastation of the biome compared to last year, when the annual rate was 8.531,44 km². This is the 3rd consecutive year of growth in destruction in the Cerrado. In the Bolsonaro government, the deforestation of the biome accumulated an area of ​​33.444 km², more than six times the area of ​​the city of Brasília.

O Cerrado has almost 1 million km² of remaining native vegetation, almost twice the area of ​​France, and includes the most biodiverse tropical savannas in the world, representing more than 5% of the biodiversity worldwide. The biome is home to 25 million people, around 100 indigenous peoples and countless traditional communities.

However, the Cerrado It has already lost half of its area and, in recent years, has suffered the effects of the accelerated advance of the agricultural frontier, the largest in the world.

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