Data presented by MMA show that 4,495 km² of the Amazon rainforest was on the warning of deforestation from August 2024 to July 2025
System data, from the Inpe (National Institute for Space Research), show that 4,495 km² of the Amazon rainforest were on deforestation from August 2024 to July 2025. It is a 4% increase in relation to the previous cycle, when 4,321 km² were recorded. It is the 2nd lowest level of the system’s historical series.
The figures were released on Thursday (7.ago.2025) by MMA (Ministry of Environment and Climate Change), MCTI (Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation) and INPE. They include forest fires and shallow cut, total felling of vegetation without regeneration. The discharge was driven by fires in the 2nd semester of 2024. Considering only the shallow cut unused, there was 8%drop, the smallest level in the series.
The Minister of the Environment, said that fires in wet forests, previously little relevant to deforestation, have intensified with climate change. A study by the World Resources Institute (WRI) pointed out that by 2024 almost half of the global loss of primary tropical rainforest was caused by fires.
In the Cerrado, the alerts fell 20.8%from 7,014 km² to 5,555 km². Maranhão and Minas Gerais reduced 34%, followed by Tocantins (29%), Mato Grosso (19%) and Bahia (7%). Piauí was the only one to record high, 33%. In the Pantanal, the fall was 72%, from 1,148 km² to 319 km².
From January to June 2025, the country had a 65.8% reduction in burned areas and 46.4% in heat outbreaks, according to LASA (Laboratory of Environmental Satellite Applications) of UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and INPE.
Last year, Ibama carried out 9,540 supervisory actions in the Amazon, applying R $ 2.4 billion in fines, issuing 3,111 embargoes that total 5,096.8 km², plus 2,124 seizures and destruction of 873 equipment.
Marina stated that the government acts to “Zerving deforestation by 2030” with a package of measurements. Among them: hiring of 4,385 brigade members (up 26% of 2024), purchase of 7 helicopters for Ibama, release of R $ 850 million from the Amazon Fund, support of R $ 405 million to the Fire Bodies of the Legal Amazon, R $ 150 million to combat fire in the Cerrado and Pantanal and R $ 785 million for the Union with Municipalities program.
Other actions include the National Fire Management Policy, PPCDs (action plans for deforestation and burning prevention and control) for all biomes and the sanction of Law 15,143 of 2025, which expands responses to fires and streamlines the hiring of brigade members.
