Despite 11% drop in 2022, Amazon deforestation rate has soared under Bolsonaro

Mongabay
Dec 2, 2022, 12:21 am246 pts
Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped 11.27% compared with the prior year, official data show. But the government of President Bolsonaro still accounts for the most Amazon destruction in the last 34 years, environmentalists say. Between Aug. 1, 2021, and July 31, 2022, an area of 11,568 square…

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