In The Amazon Region, The Equivalent Of Three Thousand Football Fields Were Lost Every Day In 2022 Libertà Piacenza Libertà

The equivalent of three thousand soccer fields will be lost in the Amazon rainforest every day by 2022.
This is Amazon’s impressive satellite monitoring data, which speaks of the fifth consecutive annual deforestation.
Between January and December last year, 10,573 km² was devastated, the most destruction in 15 years since the research institute began monitoring the region in 2008.
With that, the cumulative deforestation over the last four years between 2019 and 2022 has reached 35,193 km². An area larger than two states: Sergipe and Alagoas, which are 21,000 and 27,000 km² respectively. In addition to an increase of almost 150% compared to the previous four-year period between 2015 and 2018, when 14,424 km² were devastated.

“We hope this is the latest deforestation record reported by our satellite monitoring system as the new government has promised to prioritize protecting the Amazon. But for this to happen, the administration must strive for maximum effectiveness in anti-devastation measures such as: B. the already announced to undo the demarcation of indigenous land, to restructure the regulators and to encourage income generation from existing forests,” he urges Bianca Santos, Amazon Researcher.
In December alone, the Amazon lost 287 km² of forest, a 105% increase compared to the same month in 2021, when 140 km² were devastated.
It was the month with the highest rate of deforestation of the year.
“The last month of the year saw a loggers rampage as the floodgates opened up to ranching, land speculation, illegal mining and logging on tribal lands, and conservation forces. This shows the scale of the challenge facing the new government,” he comments Carlos Souza Jr.
On the day of this shocking announcement, state environmental agency Ibama said the first field operations to combat deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon under the new president’s administration began this week. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. “The deployment of teams to begin inspection operations began on January 16, 2023,” the agency told AFP, without specifying where those initial operations began.
The president, who began his third term at the helm of the country on January 1, has pledged to fight for zero deforestation by 2030 after four years of massive destruction under the previous administration Jair Bolsonaro.

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