RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Deforestation alerts in the Legal Amazon in June reached 1,061 km², the fourth record-breaking month since the beginning of the Deter-B series, from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), created in 2016.
The rate for the first six months of 2021, in deforestation alerts, shows 3,610 km² of open areas, an increase of 17% over the 3,081 km².recorded in the same period of 2020.
The expansion is of concern because it will cause a continuing high level of forest destruction. Although the difference in alerts in June 2021 with . . .
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