Record Amazon deforestation in January

The Brazilian part of the world-famous Amazon rainforest recorded a deforestation last January. Deforestation has increased several times compared to a year ago. The data were obtained from deforestation in the Amazon, based on satellite imagery from Brazil's state-run space agency. News of the British broadcaster BBC.


Last month, five times more trees were cut down in the Amazon than in January 2021, the highest in a single month since 2015, when deforestation was recorded.



A total of 430 square kilometers (18 square miles) of deforestation was reported in January, seven times larger than Manhattan in New York.

Environmentalists are blaming President Jair Bolsonaro for allowing deforestation in the Brazilian part of the Amazon. The BBC says: 'Climate change is now a major crisis in the world. "If we want to deal with this crisis, we need to protect the Amazon."

In addition to timber, deforestation is being done to supply food to various food production companies around the world.



At the COP-28 climate conference in Glasgow, UK last year, hundreds of governments pledged to stop deforestation and plant trees by 2030.

Environmentalists say satellite images of the Brazilian space agency Inpen have once again raised questions about the Brazilian government's commitment to protecting the world's largest evergreen forest.

The environmental group Greenpeace has explained this by highlighting the data of Majetti's inp in Christiania, Brazil. He spoke in support of the US Alliance, but said that maintaining some independence was important for Brazil.