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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon pacing 88% higher than last year's rate

2013-05-18 23:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Satellite analysis by a Brazil-based NGO indicates that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon continues to pace well ahead of last year, when the government passed a weakened version of its law governing use of forest lands. Imazon's near-real-time deforestation tracking system - known as SAD - detected 1,570 square kilometers of accumulated forest loss between August 2012 and April 2013, an 88 percent increase over the 836 sq km cleared during the year earlier period. However accumulated forest...

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