read at: Amazon deforestation jumps in August 522 sq km of Amazon rainforest cleared
mongabay.com
September 22, 2012
Monthly DETER deforestation data from INPE since August 2008. Augusts denoted by orange.
The new data, released with little fanfare and without the usual press release on INPE's homepage, was first highlighted by O Eco, a Brazilian environmental news site.
Some 522 sq km of Amazon rainforest was cleared in the month of August, an increase of 220 percent over August a year ago, according to INPE's near-real time deforestation detection system DETER. Clearing was concentrated in Pará (44 percent) and Mato Grosso (40 percent), two states where the bulk of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has occurred over the past thirty years.
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