According to a the report from FSP🚥, the group of experts – led by Gilberto Câmara, former director of the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) – predicts that devastation in the forest could surpass the 20 thousand km² barrier as early as 2024.
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Among the causes of the growing increase in deforestation, Câmara pointed out, in a technical note in format preprint, still without review by other scientists: “The Bolsonaro government dismantled the main environmental inspection bodies, reduced Inpe's budget to 20% of what the institute received in 2010, in addition to dismissing its director [Ricardo Galvão, in 2019]. Compliance with the provisions of the Forest Code has been postponed.”
In addition to the numerical prediction, scientists estimated a spatial distribution of this deforestation, that is, in which areas it should occur. Look:
According to the report, the simulation is not intended to make a prediction, but rather to support public policies, indicating what needs to be done for each region of the largest tropical forest in the world.
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