The geography of environmental degradation in the Amazon

Mongabay
Jun 7, 2023, 12:35 pm149 pts
The Pan Amazon spans approximately 825 million hectares, of which approximately ninety million hectares have been lost to deforestation; this corresponds to ~13% of the original forest cover. At first glance, this percentage value might not seem alarming, particularly in the context of the total extant forest…

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