According to the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, according to Prodes Cerrado data, released by Inpe (National Institute for Space Research), "deforestation in the Brazilian cerrado between August 2018 and July 2019 fell slightly but remains high." 6,483 km² were devastated, with a 15% growth in deforestation in protected areas (PAs).
According to Folha, "the value is not far from the devastation seen in recent years in the Amazon, but the cerrado is about half the size of the Amazon biome.
The Cerrado biome has recently lost the equivalent of London's metropolitan area every three months, according to data released by Inpe. The loss of vegetation cover in recent years has worried environmentalists.
According to WWF-Brazil, at the rate of destruction in recent years, the Cerrado is heading for a process of mass extinction unprecedented in Earth's history.
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