Deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 67.9 percent in April compared to the same month in 2022, reported the official Brazilian Institute for Space Studies (INPE).
The Deter satellite system indicated that Brazil lost 329 square kilometers of tropical forest in the Amazon region in April, compared to 1,026 square kilometers in the same month last year.
In the first four months of the year, there was a 41 percent drop in the inter-annual comparison of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, of which Brazil owns 60 percent.
April’s result is the first month with a reduction in Amazon deforestation in Brazil since President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office on January 1, 2009.
President Lula da Silva has increased the enforcement against environmental crimes, including using police force against illegal mining in indigenous lands.
The main states most affected by the devastation of the rainforest are Amazonas (north), Pará (north), and Mato Grosso (west).
According to the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, fines for environmental crimes in the first four months of 2023 increased 287 percent over the average for the same period of the last four previous years.
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