A significant decline in the destruction of forests in Brazil for the first time in 6 years

Brazil is witnessing for the first time in 6 years, a remarkable slowdown in forest damage and illegal removal, in the development of positively, a few months before the country’s hosting of the United Nations Climate Conference “COP 30”.
The rate of decrease in the removal of forests in one year was 32.4% compared to the previous year, with a total area of ​​1.24 million hectares, according to the latest report of the “Map Pamias” network, which includes NGOs, universities and technology companies, and began recording data in 2019.

Loss of 3403 hectares of vegetation

Despite its progress, Brazil is still losing 3403 hectares of vegetable cover per day.
In the Amazon, the largest tropical rainforests in the world, cutting trees destroying an average of 1035 hectares per day, or “about 7 trees per second”, according to the report.

But in the year 2024, the protected areas witnessed great improvements, and 67% of the original lands were removed from the removal of forests, after Brazil lost since 2019, 9.88 million hectares of forests, equivalent to the area of ​​a whole country like Korea.