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Brazil's Amazon deforestation this year nearly size of Puerto Rico, says agency
Source: Reuters
Brazil's Amazon deforestation this year nearly size of Puerto Rico, says agency
Reuters
Sat 14 Dec 2019 02.13 GMT
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published.
Destruction of the world’s largest tropical rainforest totalled 563 square kms in November, which is more than double the area in the same month last year, according to the country’s space research agency INPE on Friday.
That would bring total deforestation for the period from January to November to 8,934 square km, 83% more than in the same period in 2018 and an area almost the size of Puerto Rico.
Deforestation usually slows around November and December during the Amazon region’s rainy season. The number for last month was unusually high.
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Reuters
Sat 14 Dec 2019 02.13 GMT
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published.
Destruction of the world’s largest tropical rainforest totalled 563 square kms in November, which is more than double the area in the same month last year, according to the country’s space research agency INPE on Friday.
That would bring total deforestation for the period from January to November to 8,934 square km, 83% more than in the same period in 2018 and an area almost the size of Puerto Rico.
Deforestation usually slows around November and December during the Amazon region’s rainy season. The number for last month was unusually high.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/14/brazils-amazon-deforestation-this-year-nearly-size-of-puerto-rico-says-agency
