Brazil lost 13,471 square kilometres of rainforest in 2018, an area nearly the size of the US state of Connecticut, according to annual data fromThat represents a significant drop from the previous year however when large-scale forest fires drove higher losses in Brazil.
“Though some of the 2018 loss can be attributed to fire, most of it appears to be due to clear-cutting in the Amazon, putting at risk the declines in deforestation the country achieved in the early 2000s,” researchers wrote on the group's website. The Democratic Republic of the Congo ranked second in forest loss with 4,812 square kilometres cleared.
Activists and non-government organizations fear that deforestation could rise in Brazil under the administration of Jair Bolsonaro, who assumed the presidency on Jan. 1.
This is the biggest threat to our planet. Bigger threat than coal burning.
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