The effects of Luis Inázio Lula de Silva’s rise to power in Brazil seem to be already being felt from an environmental perspective. This Amazon Brazil lost 329 square kilometers of vegetation in April, 67.9% lower than the same month in 2022 (1,026 square kilometers) and the smallest month in three years, the government reported this Friday.
The area of Brazil, the world’s largest tropical forest, deforested in the first four months of this year 1,173 square kilometers with a decrease of 40.4% compared to the same period of the previous year. (1,968 square kilometers), according to data from the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE).
Although data from the Amazon deforestation warning system showed a reduction in the area destroyed, the devastation in the fiscal year from August 2022 to July 2023, 5,977 square kilometers of accumulated deforestation by Aprilthe highest level in nine years.
“This year’s data does not indicate less deforestation. On the contrary, the alarm areas that have accumulated in the fiscal year, at least until April, are the largest since 2015, when destruction began to be measured,” a Greenpeace spokesperson warned. Amazon, Rômulo Batista.
According to this environmental organization, effective deforestation reduction will depend on what the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took office in January, can do by July to defend what is considered the largest lung on the planet.
Greenpeace acknowledged that the reduction in deforestation earlier this year can be attributed to some initiatives already being adopted by the progressive leader’s government. increased surveillance, restructuring of environmental defense agencies, and campaigns to combat mining and illegal logging.
An area like all of Navarra was deforested last year
The Brazilian Amazon lost a record 10,278 square kilometers of vegetation last year.An area equivalent to the foral community of Navarra.
In the four years of Jair Bolsonaro’s government, deforestation has increased by almost 60%. (2019-2022), compared to the previous four-year period due to lack of control and weakening of environmental organizations, according to environmental organizations.
The progress of destruction over the past four years has also far-right leader’s anti-environment speechadvocated the exploitation of natural resources in the forest, including indigenous reserves.
Saving Amazon is one of Lula’s main commitments.reactivated the Amazon Fund in his first month in office and canceled the controversial Bolsonaro measures.
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