Deforestation in Brazil Continues to Surge, Up 10.7 Percent in June

Brazilian coastal forest, Itacaré. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care

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Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose 10.7 percent last month compared to June 2019, the 14th consecutive month of worsening tree loss, according to new data from the country’s national space research agency, INPE. In the first half of 2020, deforestation was up 25 percent, for a total 1,184 square miles, compared to the same period last year…

Read Full Article, Yale E360 (07-10-2020)

“Rezoning” in Brazil Opens Endangered Atlantic Forest to Development; By Joseph Green, Extramural Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs / COHA (02-15-2017)

A Giant Brought To Its Knee: The Atlantic Coastal Forest
The Atlantic Forest is a shadow of its former self. Originally covering more than 386,000 sq. miles along Brazil’s coast, extending into eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. Today less than 7% of that cover remains, in the wake of centuries of forest clearing for agriculture and urban development, and fragmented by centuries of unsustainable use and logging.

Due To Landscape Fragmentation, Brazil’s Rainforests Are Releasing More Carbon Dioxide Than Previously Thought; Science Daily (08-07-2014)

Brazil’s Atlantic coastal forests lose key species; Nature Journal (08-15-2012)