Since 1985, the Brazilian part of the Amazon has lost approximately 52 million hectares of natural vegetation, which is the area larger than Spain. On a nationwide scale, this decline in the last four decades 111.7 million hectares, which corresponds to more than three times the area of Germany. This is stated in the Mapbiomas initiative, associating university, NGOs and technology companies published on Wednesday. TASR informs about this, referring to DPA.
In nearly five centuries, until 1985, 60 percent of the land began to be used for agriculture and mining in Brazil, or it was taken by cities and infrastructure. The remaining 40 percent of the changes have only happened in the last four decades, from 1985 to 2024, said Tasso Azevedo, Mapbiomas Coordinator.
The most intense deforestation occurred in 1995-2004. However, in the last decade, this trend As a result of degradation, climatic effects and expansion of agriculture he accelerated again. Overall, the area of natural areas in Brazil It reduced from 80 percent in 1985 to 65 percent in 2024.
In Pantanal – the largest wetland in the world – the bikes of floods with every decade have been shortened and culminated Last year the driest year in the past four decades. Last year, the range of water surfaces was 73 percent less than the average of 1985-2024, which supported the formation of fires.
In Cerrade, the extensive complex of Savan and the forests in the southeast of Brazil, according to the initiative Mapbiomas was in four decades Removed approximately 40 million hectares of natural vegetation. At the UN November conference on climate change, Brazilian President Luiz Intikio Lula da Silva He promised to stop deforestation in Brazil by 2030.
