Amazon deforestation rocketing

BRASILIA - Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has hit its highest level in more than 15 years after increasing by 22% in a year, according to Brazil’s space research agency.

Some 5,110 square miles of it was lost during the past year.

The rainforest is home to about three million species of plants and animals, and one million indigenous people.

President Jair Bolsonaro has encouraged agriculture and mining activities in the Amazon.

 

 

 

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