Despite a federal protection law, Brazil’s Atlantic Forest lost a Washington, D.C.-sized area of mature forest every year between 2010 and 2020, with most of the deforestation occurring illegally on ...
Forest destruction in Brazil and Colombia fell "steeply" between 2022 and 2023, according to data from the University of Maryland's GLAD Lab that has been shared on the World Resources Institute's ...
A total of 4.47 million hectares (11.05 million acres) of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest has regenerated naturally since 1985, but nearly a third of this area has been cleared again. These “ephemeral” ...
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Brazil’s Atlantic Forest still losing ‘large amounts’ of mature forest, despite legal protection
But despite conservation wins like this, recent research reveals a sobering reality: Brazil’s Atlantic Forest continues to lose thousands of hectares of mature forest each year, even though it’s ...
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