News about deforestation
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Trees are vital to life on earth, they absorb around a third of all carbon dioxide or CO2 which is emitted annually but according to the united nations an estimated 29.000 square miles of forest are lost every year, and Brazil, where vast areas of the Amazon rainforest have been cut down among the country. In 2020 Brazil had the highest rate of deforestation in 12 years. Now the problem has been getting much worse, over four thousand square miles of Brazilian rainforest were destroyed in just a year. Campaigners say illegal loggers have a green light from president Jair Bolsonaro. They accuse him of carving up environmental protections and fueling climate change. Every year vast areas are cleared by slashing and burning. Last year Brazil faced the worst forest fires in a decade. According to data released by Brazil’s national institute for space research during the first five months of the year more than two thousand five hundred square kilometers of the Amazon rainforest have been destroyed, It’s an area three times the size of new york city. Compared to the last year, deforestation has risen by sixty-seven percent.
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