Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has reached a 15-year high

A destroyed area in the Menkragnoti Indigenous reserve in the Amazon rainforest.

Source: AAP

According to data from INPE/National Institute for Space Research, Brazilian Amazon lost more than 13 thousand square kilometers of tropical forest between August 2020 and July 2021.





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