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Amazon: Brazil will not meet its deforestation reduction target

2021-08-02T21:00:07.700Z


Brazil will not achieve its goal of reducing deforestation in the Amazon by 10% over the reference period August 2020-July 2021, a ...


Brazil will not achieve its goal of reducing deforestation in the Amazon by 10% over the reference period August 2020-July 2021, Vice-President Hamilton Mourao admitted Monday, August 2.

We're probably not going to meet our 10% reduction target (in deforestation).

I think it will be more like 4 to 5%.

It is a very weak reduction, ridiculous, but it is better than nothing

, declared to the press this general of the reserve.

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Official data on deforestation over the cycle from August to July, collected by the Prodes system of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), will not be known until November.

From August 2019 to July 2020, 10,851 km2 had been deforested in the Amazon, an increase of 7% compared to the previous cycle.

Deployed army

Despite the deployment of the army to try to crack down on illegal deforestation, the situation has continued to deteriorate in recent months.

Another INPE calculation system, the Deter, which publishes preliminary data in real time, shows that the area deforested in the Amazon increased by 17% in the first half of 2021 compared to 2020. In June, deforestation beaten a fourth consecutive monthly record since the establishment of the Deter in 2015, with no less than 1,062 km2 deforested, a worrying figure for this month which marks the start of the dry season.

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Vice-President Mourao, however, underlined the 27% drop in the number of fires identified by the INPE in July compared to the same month last year. According to him, this reduction is due to "

measures put in place

" by the government, which is why he recommends "

to continue to deploy the army

" to also fight against these fires.

But Cristiane Mazzetti, from the Brazilian branch of Greenpeace, fears that the number of forest fires will increase again in the coming months "

when the vegetation of recently deforested areas will be drier and likely to be illegally burned

". “

The worst is yet to come. Not only will the next few months be very dry in the Amazon, but (government) environmental monitoring agencies have been weakened,

"including by budget cuts,"

and one of Parliament's priorities is to pass laws that could further provoke more destruction of the environment,

”she insists.

Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro recently pledged to the international community to eliminate illegal deforestation in Brazil by 2030, without announcing concrete measures to achieve this goal.

Source: lefigaro

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