Deforestation in the
Brazilian Amazon increases 93% this year
Deforestation
in the Amazon increased 93% between January and September of 2019
compared to last year
In
the first nine months of the year, it lost 7,854 square kilometers of
vegetation cover, and in September alone 1,447.4 square kilometers
were cut.
Which
is almost the double that in 2018.
The
data used is from the Deter, which works with satellite images and
INPE uses it to offer alerts about the areas that are being
deforested.
Is
being seen a trend on deforestation. los prosecutors of the Brazilian
Institute of Environment will be alerted to the threatened places
where they have to concentrate their activities.
Deforestation
in the Brazilian Amazon has also coincided with the progress of fires
in the region and has made the Brazilian Government a target of harsh
criticism by organizations and foreign countries.
Information
was released this Friday by the state National Institute of Space
Research (INPE).
Jesús
Castelló Parra