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Brazil fears rise of global warming and continuous deforestation

380 views · Published 26 November 2018 · 2:57 · Indexed 31 October 2026

Channel: Daily Mail World · 2018 · Education

Satellite images from July 2017 to July 2018 showed that 3,050 square miles of forest were wiped out - a 13.7 per cent increase from the same period last year. Brazil's environment minister Edson Duarte said that illegal logging and farming were the main factors behind the spike and called on the government to increase its policing of the jungle. The states of Pará and Mato Grosso were the largest contributors to the deforestation increase. Brazil's Climate Observatory, a network of non-governmental organizations, said in a separate statement that the increase was not a surprise. Besides illegal logging, it said Brazil's growing commodities sector was contributing to forest destruction as farmers sought to expand. Pictured: An aerial view of deforestation in the Western Amazon region of Brazil in September last year.

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