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Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest


Deforestation in the Amazon | Amazon Conservation Association

Estimates place the current deforestation level of the Amazon at 17 percent, and its tipping point at 20-25 percent.

Deforestation in the Amazon: past, present and future - InfoAmazonia

Between 2001 and 2020, the deforestation in the Amazon totalled about 54.2 million hectares, the equivalent of 9% of the forest cover. Cattle- ...

Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest - Ballard Brief

Cattle ranching is the biggest single cause of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, accounting for about 80% of the Amazon's deforestation as ...

Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

Cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon has been identified as the primary cause of deforestation, [4] accounting for about 80% of all deforestation in the ...

Deforestation in the Amazon - Council on Foreign Relations

Large-scale deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon began in the 1960s, when government incentives to clear land for production coincided with more effective ...

How deforestation is pushing the Amazon to a climate tipping point

Agribusiness and meat consumption are the primary drivers of deforestation in the Amazon and other biomes in Brazil such as the Pantanal and the ...

Why Is the Amazon Rain Forest Disappearing? - Time

With as much as 17% of the forest lost already, scientists believe that the tipping point will be reached at 20% to 25% of deforestation even if climate change ...

Amazon Deforestation and Climate Change

The Amazon rain forest absorbs one-fourth of the CO2 absorbed by all the land on Earth. The amount absorbed today, however, is 30% less than it ...

Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest: causes, effects, solutions

This article will examine the large-scale destruction of the forest cover in the Amazon for cattle pastures and other human activities.

One fifth of the Amazon rainforest lost to deforestation | BBC News

The Amazon rainforest has lost an area the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in the last 40 years. One fifth of the ...

Deforestation remains low, but fires surge in Brazil's Amazon rainforest

The rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has remained near a six-year low despite a surge in the number of fires burning in Earth's ...

Amazon Threats | WWF - Panda.org

17 % of the Amazon forest has been lost in the last 50 years. Extensive cattle ranching accounts for 80% of current deforestation, while agriculture is largely ...

Amazon Rainforest | Plants, Animals, Climate, & Deforestation

Amazon Rainforest, large tropical rainforest occupying the Amazon basin in northern South America and covering an area of 2300000 square miles (6000000 ...

World of Change: Amazon Deforestation - NASA Earth Observatory

Although tropical deforestation meets some human needs, it also has profound, sometimes devastating, consequences, including social conflict and ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest is down to lowest level ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday.

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest continues to plunge

Since the early 1970s, the Brazilian Amazon has lost just under 20% of its forest cover. Scientists express concern that the persistent ...

Ending Deforestation in the Amazon Can Grow Brazil's GDP

In the Brazilian Amazon, economic growth has often gone hand-in-hand with exploiting the rainforest. The region's economy, and Brazil as a ...

Amazon Deforestation — How Much of the Rainforest is Left?

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is now at a six-year low, but factory farming continues to drive destruction.

Deforestation in the Amazon is accelerating the point of no return ...

The Panel's data shows that 18% of Amazon forests have been converted to other uses and an additional 17% are highly degraded. The report also ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest falls to lowest since 2015

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 30.6% in 12 months through July · President Lula's enforcement of environmental laws credited for reduction ...