Every minute, the equivalent of two football fields, full of trees, were deforested in the Amazon. This is what data from Deter, the deforestation alert system of the National Institute of Space Research (Inpe), revealed in relation to the month of April. By then, the worst record for the month had been detected in 2021 and was now 75% higher, surpassing 1,000 square kilometers.

Vice President Hamilton Mourão himself, who until recently led the Amazon Council, with the task of coordinating surveillance actions, assessed the data as "terrible" and said it is necessary to know "where we went wrong". A suspicion for being the fact that, since 2019, 97% of the areas in which deforestation alerts were found have not received surveillance actions, according to Map Biomas

In The Point on Wednesday, which is part of the One Planet project, the executive secretary of the Climate Observatory, Márcio Astrini, explains what april deforestation, at the end of the rainy season in the Amazon, indicates what should occur in the coming months. He also looks at other factors, such as the electoral calendar itself, that may help reduce oversight over the coming months. Astrini also assesses the chances of Brazil losing the opportunity to receive new resources that are being mobilized for the protection of tropical forests in the face of the lack of action to combat illicit activities in the Amazon.

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Source: Um só Planeta