RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Expert report points out that satellite warnings of tree fellings increased 30% in 2020; however, IBAMA has inspected virtually none of them.
IBAMA, the Brazilian environmental enforcement agency, has failed to attend to virtually all deforestation alerts by satellites monitoring Brazilian forest areas in recent years, according to data from the MapBiomas Project, a collaborative network of experts in the country, which analyzes these alerts and monitors deforestation, on the rise in Brazil, it points out.
Between mid-2018 and early 2021, only 5% of the deforested area had some degree of intervention from IBAMA (fines . . .
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