Brazil takes a 65 percent drop in the Amazon area by Brand

The area of Amazon Rainforest, which lost to Brazil in Brazil in July, fell 65 percent compared to a year ago, the Mapbiomas monitoring platform said Wednesday, which boosts the government while preparing to present the UN climate change conference. Satellite images showed that 143,000 hectares (353.360 hectares) of the world’s largest tropical forest were destroyed by fires last month, dramatically from the same month last year, when a historic drought of fires griped. The number – the smallest since Mapbiomas with the monthly satellite mapping of fire damage in 2019 – comes three months before President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is the COP30 UN conference in the Amazon City or impeded. Across Brazil, 748,000 hectares of land were consumed by the fire in July, by 40 percent lower than last year. Between January and July, a total of 2.45 million hectares burned over Brazil, with 59 percent in the same period in 2024. The Cerrado, a large regional tropical savanna in Central Brazil, had the worst destruction in July, with 571,000 hectares in flames, with 16 percent in a year. Felipe Martenexen, a researcher at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, attributed the improvements to a “more intense and sustained rainy season”. He added that the environmental and economic damage caused by the fires of 2024 and the supervision of land clearance authorities also led to farmers and residents being more careful. While drought had the spread of fires last year, many of the flames were started illegally by people who cleaned land for agriculture. Lula promised to end the deforestation of Amazon by 2030. Ll/lg/cb/acb