Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest hit a 15-year high between 2020 and 2021.
The Amazon rainforest covers land in nine countries, but around 60% lies in Brazil.
At the COP26 climate summit in November, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed an international pledge to end deforestation by 2030. to pass laws that would allow commercial developments on protected land. The President has also offered financial incentives to indigenous tribes who develop their land in the rainforest into soy plantations,In August, Brazil's lower house of Congress passed a bill that will make it easier for squatters on public land to be granted deeds to that land. It came after, paved the way for mining, agriculture and other projects in the Amazon to be greenlit more easily.