Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell in the 12 months through July, according to government data released on Wednesday, retreating from a 15-year high under outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro.
The destruction declined 11% from a year earlier to 11,568 square kilometers , according to annual data from. That was still more Amazon deforestation than any year from 2009 to 2020.
Ane Alencar, science director at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, said that there has been no change in Bolsonaro's policy of weakening environmental agencies to explain the drop in deforestation. The annual deforestation measure produced by Inpe's PRODES satellite monitoring program is far more accurate than its rapid alert DETER system, which publishes weekly data.
The average deforestation in the past four years of Bolsonaro is roughly 60% higher than the previous four years. Bolsonaro's office did not immediately respond to request for comment.
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