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Aerial images of Amazon rainforest contradict Bolsonaro's UNGA speech, organizations sayAerial view from Sept. 15 of an area in the Amazon that Greenpeace says has been deforested for the expansion of livestock, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Victor Moriyama/Amazônia em Chamas/Greenpeace
Bolsonaro said in his remarks that the Amazon had “a 32% reduction in deforestation in the month of August when compared to August of the previous year.” The number is almost double of what was registered in August 2018, before the Bolsonaro administration. Data from the Amazon Institute of Man and Environment – which monitors the deforested areas by satellite – however, points to 1.606 square kilometers of deforestation in August, a 7% rise in comparison to the same month of 2020.
“While Bolsonaro was en route to New York, we flew over the Amazon to record the reality of the destruction of the largest tropical rainforest in the world: illegal deforestation and burning. The images don’t lie, but the same cannot be said of the President's speech at the UN,” says Stela Herschmann, climate policy specialist at the Climate Observatory.Under the Bolsonaro administration, Amazonas surpassed Rondonia as the third state with the worst level of deforestation, according to INPE.
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