The Amazon lost an area of primary forest larger than Israel in 2020

Mongabay
Jan 28, 2021, 6:13 pm245 pts
The Amazon basin lost more than 2 million hectares of primary forest cover in 2020, according to a new satellite data analysis released today. The authors say this likely eclipses loss in 2019 when 1.7 million hectares was deforested – and is likely even a conservative estimate, meaning that the actual area…

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