Brazil’s Amazon deforestation hits lowest level on record
- Data show a 42 percent drop in forest clearance from a year earlier, giving Lula a boost before the election run-off.
- Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has fallen to its lowest level since records began in 1988, according to official figures that give a boost to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva days before a presidential run-off.
- Brazil’s space research agency, Inpe, said on Friday that 3,335 square kilometres (1,288 square miles) of forest were cleared in the 12 months through July, about 42 percent less than the year before.
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- Data show a 42 percent drop in forest clearance from a year earlier, giving Lula a boost before the election run-off.
- Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has fallen to its lowest level since records began in 1988, according to official figures that give a boost to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva days before a presidential run-off.
- Brazil’s space research agency, Inpe, said on Friday that 3,335 square kilometres (1,288 square miles) of forest were cleared in the 12 months through July, about 42 percent less than the year before.
Sources: Al Jazeera