A TERRITORY THE SIZE OF UNITED KINGDOM HAS BEEN DEFORESTED IN THE YEARS 2000-2013 IN THE "PAN-AMAZONIAN" REGION

Reproduced from www.oeco.org.br

(PAN-AMAZONIAN REGION extends for nine countries)

A Rondônia state, northwest Brazil (or the equivalent to the territory of the United Kingdom) were lost between 2000 and 2013. This is the conclusion of a new study of Amazonian Network of socio-environmental Georeferenced Information (RAISG), released this Monday (05). Over the 13 years have been deforested 222,249 km ² in the nine countries that are part of the Amazon rainforest.

(Subtitle above: Deforestation has decreased, but is still high)

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Today, the main threats to this biome throughout the region are agricultural activities and the infrastructure works such as roads and dams. To a lesser degree, although with significant impact, also highlight the illegal mining, oil exploitation and illicit crops as risk factors to the integrity of the forest.

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