The Amazon Rainforest lost with the fires in Brazil in July compared to the year before a year, the Mapbiomas Monitoring Platform said on Wednesday and strengthened the government as it is preparing to host a UN climate conference.
Satellite paintings have shown that 143,000 hectares (353 360 acres) of the largest tropical forest in the world were demolished last month fires, dramatically from the same month of last year, when the historical drought announced a record number of fires.
Picture – The smallest from the Mapbioms began the monthly satellite mapping of fire damage in 2019 – it comes three months before President Luiz Lula da Silva COP30 UN conference in the Amazon city of Belem.
Throughout Brazil, 748,000 hectares of land was consumed in July, and last year by 40 percent.
From January to July in Brazil burned a total of 2.45 million hectares, which is 59 percent for the same period in 2024.
Cerrado, a huge area of tropical savannah in Central Brazil, suffered the worst destruction in July, with 571,000 hectares rising in flames, by 16 percent per year.
Felipe Martenexen, a researcher of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, has attributed this year’s improvement to “more intense and permanently rainy”.
He added that environmental and economic damage caused by fires 2024 and increased supervision of authorities of the authorities may also have “leadership of farmers and population to be more cautious”.
While last year the drought followed the spread of fires, many facilities were unlawfully established by people who cleaned the land for agriculture.
Lula undertook to end the deforestation of Amazon by 2030.
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