CERRADO SEVERELY PUNISHED: GROWING UP IN AGRIBUSINESS WITHOUT CONTROL IS STUPIDITY

 …and speaking of stupidity…

REPRODUCED (and translated) FROM

https://oeco.org.br/salada-verde/municipios-no-matopiba-somam-75-do-desmate-do-cerrado-no-primeiro-semestre/

HIGHLIGHTS

1) The municipalities of Matopiba, between the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia, continue to push the elimination of the Cerrado in the country. The biome has already lost about half of its natural vegetation to agribusiness. What remains is fragmented and concentrated in the region.

In those states, 367,000 ha (74.7%) of the 491,000 ha lost in the first half of this year were deforested. Large rural properties totaled 193 thousand ha (48%). Medium properties account for 133 thousand ha (33%) and small for 76 thousand ha (19%).

2) The combined rates reveal 28% more losses in the biome compared to the same period in 2022. Municipalities such as São Desidério and Correntina, in Bahia, Mirador and Balsas, in Maranhão, lead the devastation of the "Brazilian savanna". The situation is expected to worsen with the arrival of the drought.

(Graph above)  Area deforested in the Cerrado in the first half of 2023.