The Amazon saw record deforestation last year. Here’s why.

Mongabay
Jun 27, 2023, 3:55 pm111 pts
Last year, the Amazon saw some of the highest rates of deforestation in over a decade, due to a combination of cattle ranching, agriculture, mining and road projects that cleared millions of acres of rainforest. An estimated 1.98 million hectares (4.89 million acres) of forest were cleared in 2022, a 21%…

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