In 2019, according to Inpe, deforestation in the Brazilian Cerrado grew 15%; WWF-Brazil fears that the Cerrado is heading for a process of mass extinction unprecedented in Earth's history

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.

According to Inpe, Amazon deforestation in November grows 104% and breaks the record for this month

A survey by INPE (Brazil National Institute for Space Research) found that the devastation of the Amazon rainforest biome hit a record for November. In 2019, according to Inpe, there was an increase of almost 104% of the deforested area compared to the previous year.

According to the Deter (Deforestation Detection System in the Legal Amazon in Real Time) there was an increase of 83.9% in forest devastation between January and November 2019 compared to the same period of 2018. In total, during the government From Jair Bolsonaro, the devastation of the forest went from 4,878.7 square kilometers recorded in 2019 to 8,974.31 square kilometers during the current government.

It is good to remember that following the international repercussions of the increase in deforestation reported by Inpe since July, President Jair Bolsonaro accused, without evidence, Inpe of lying about the data and dismissed the then director of the institute, Ricardo Galvão, who rebutted the criticism of the President In the end, the data showed that Galvão was right and that deforestation had really increased a lot in the region. Due to his opposition to the government and his work in defense of science, Galvão was elected by Nature magazine one of the ten most important scientists of 2019.

According to Nature magazine, Galvão "spoke out in defence of INPE scientists. He also accused the president of cowardice and called for a face-to-face meeting — acts that he knew would lead to him losing his job. What he didn’t know was that he would become a hero of sorts, hailed by his scientific colleagues as well as by strangers on the streets. A woman even stopped him on the subway in São Paulo to thank him for standing up to Bolsonaro and helping her to understand why preserving the Amazon matters".

According to ISA, president Jair Bolsonaro's speeches against Indigenous Peoples coupled with weak oversight by Ibama and the Federal Police due to the weakening of these federal agencies by the current government helped to increase deforestation on indigenous lands by 80% in 2019

A study by the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA) showed that deforestation in the Amazon between August 2018 and July 2019 was higher in Indigenous lands. The Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA) linked Inpe's data to Indigenous territories and found that the increase in the deforested area rises from 30% to 80% in these regions, reaching the haunting number of 42.6 thousand hectares of destroyed forest.

The ISA research shows that 51 million trees have been felled on the Amazon rainforest at Indigenous lands in these twelve months. According to the survey by ISA, the government speech by Jair Bolsonaro boosted burning and deforestation in the Amazon. The study crossed information on deforestation with statements by President Bolsonaro, Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, and some governors in the region such as Gladson Cameli, governor of Acre.

Bolsonaro, who had said I will no longer demarcate even an "extra square inch of indigenous land," harshly criticized the destruction of vehicles used by illegal loggers by Ibama agents. He also dismissed the president of Inpe when the institute published figures on the increase in deforestation.

Acre Governor Gladson Cameli was recorded telling illegal loggers to "not pay" the fines imposed by the government.

Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, in turn, met with timber producers in Espigão d'Oeste, Rondônia, and highlighted the role of the timber industry in that state. Interestingly, illegal logging in the municipality of Espigão d'Oeste rose 332% in 2019.

All this happens in a year also terrible for the Indigenous peoples. According to Pastoral da Terra, in 2019, the death toll of indigenous leaders killed was the highest in the last 11 years. Of the 27 people who died in rural conflicts in Brazil this year, 7 were indigenous leaders, compared to 2 in 2018, according to the organization.

Observatório do Clima study shows that deforestation accounted for almost half of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil

According to Jornal Nacional, Brazil's largest television news program, the smoke from car exhaust or power plants is not the biggest polluter of the Brazilian atmosphere. The big villain in this regard is deforestation in Brazilian forests, which accounted for 44% of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions in 2018, according to a study by the Observatório do Clima, which brings together 43 civil society organizations.

In August 2019 alone, the Amazon rainforest lost 1,698 square kilometers of vegetation, according to Inpe (National Institute for Space Research of Brazil).

This represents a 222% growth over the same period in 2018. In August 2018, it was 526 square kilometers. In the first eight months of 2019, the deforested area was 92% higher than in the same period of 2018.

According to economists interviewed by Reuters, the historic low-interest rates and the devaluation of the real against the dollar threaten to accelerate deforestation in the Amazon, as they are both favorable to agribusiness growth in the country. This, coupled with the lax oversight by the Jair Bolsonaro government, puts the Amazon rainforest at grave risk.

Deforestation in the Amazon grows over 200% in August 2019 compared to August of 2018; illegal and uncontrolled logging in the region increases risks of disease and pandemics

According to the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), the Amazon rainforest has lost 1,698 square kilometers of vegetation. In August 2018, there were 526 square kilometers. In the first eight months of 2019, the deforested area reached 6,404 square kilometers (92% higher than in the same period of 2018), and 30,901 fire outbreaks were recorded in the Amazon biome in this period.

In the Amazon, 35% of deforestation cases occur in land grabbing areas in public forests, parks or public areas without a destination. This is what reveals a study by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM).

According to National Geographic Brazil, deforestation is causing an increase in infectious diseases in humans. According to scientists interviewed by the magazine, with the increase in the felling of forests around the world, grows the "fear that the next deadly pandemic may arise from within these environments."

According to the National Geographic report, over the past two decades, increasing scientific evidence suggests that deforestation, by initiating a complex chain of events, creates conditions for spreading a wide range of deadly pathogens among humans, including, the Nipah and Lassa viruses, and the parasites that cause malaria and Lyme disease.

Amazon deforestation reaches frightening levels and rises 29.5% in 2019; almost 10.000 square kilometers were cut down

According to experts, Jair Bolsonaro's anti-environmental speech, coupled with the dismantling of oversight bodies, prompted a clearing of the forest in 2019.

As published by the Climate Observatory, a coalition of dozens of environmental conservation organizations in Brazil, "this is a direct result of Bolsonaro's strategy of dismantling the Ministry of Environment, demobilizing enforcement, shelving plans. to combat deforestation of previous governments and to empower environmental criminals in his speech, and the president himself has proudly stated that he had sent his anti-environment minister, Ricardo Salles, 'to put the scythe into the IBAMA Renewable Natural Resources] '.Salles obeyed."

According to data from Prodes 2019 (Satellite Legal Amazon Deforestation Monitoring Project), released by Inpe (National Institute for Space Research), the deforested area in the Amazon was 9,762 km² between August 2018 and July 2019, the highest since 2008. This figure represents a 29.5% increase over the same period last year (August 2017 to July 2018), when deforestation was 7,536 km².

This increase represents the highest rate since 2008 and also the biggest jump from year to year in the last 22 years. For scientists like Carlos Nobre, this deforestation should transform part of the Amazon territory into an impoverished savanna. Obviously, this is very serious, which should affect the climate in the region and reduce, due to the change in the country's rainfall cycle, the capacity of Brazilian agricultural production. Deforestation is horrible for the environment and also bad for business.

This week, during a talk at the Wilson Center Brazil Institute in Washington, Brazil's agriculture minister, Tereza Cristina, heard several questions about problems in the Amazon at meetings with officials and investors. Therefore, the risk of an increase in the boycott of Brazilian products is getting bigger.

Brazil continues to burn: Minas Gerais region, in the southeast of the country, suffers from more than 3,400 fires in September

According to the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), Minas Gerais was affected by 6,553 heat spots in 2019 alone. The number already exceeds the total of 2018. In September alone, Inpe detected 3,446 fire spots in Minas Gerais.

The Minas Gerais government decided to set up a task force to fight fire in Rio Doce State Park. There is still no confirmation of the size of the affected area, but the State Forest Institute has received information that the fire started in a criminal way.

The team was formed by the State Forest Institute, Fire Department, Military Police, Brigades against fires, and volunteers. In total there are over 200 involved. The works are also supported by aircraft.

In another Brazilian state, in Mato Grosso, the Chapada dos Guimarães National Park is the target of arson. The state government has already declared an emergency.

Brazil continues to burn: on the day Twitter is overtaken by the , #ClimateStrike movement (#GreveGlobalPeloClima), part of Brazil suffers from the burning and another part from the massive arrival of smoke

Satellite images from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) show that the smoke from our Bolivian neighbors and from states like Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul has been covering São Paulo and Paraná cities since yesterday.

The thousands of fire and burn outbreaks that hit the Amazon region and the Cerrado produced a high concentration of carbon monoxide (CO) in the air of São Paulo and Paraná. This had already happened in August in Sao Paulo when the day was night due to the smoke.

In recent days, images of fire whirlwinds in Goiás have taken over social media in Brazil. Residents of several counties in this state have had to rush out of schools and workplaces because of the frightening advances of the fire.

The worldwide demonstrations scheduled for today want to alert the authorities to the current climate emergency facing the world. In Brazil, the protests will be against the policy of socio-environmental setbacks openly practiced by the current federal government.

Yesterday, in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, the Climate Coalition activists announced that the environmental movement in the country intends to claim 15 measures for the federal government, among them the application of resources foreseen for the Climate Fund, the Amazon Fund, the Environmental Compensation and the conversion of fines. According to the manifesto released by the group, by 2050 there will be 200 million climate refugees in the world.

The Coalition is made up of institutions such as Greenpeace, the Brazilian Indigenous Peoples Association (Apib), Fight for the Forest, Families for the Climate, Socio-Environmental Tide and political parties opposed to the government of Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazil continues to burn: fires are advancing throughout the country and are already 52% more than in 2018; Inpe has registered 123,786 outbreaks of fires in Brazil in 2019

Favored by dry weather, forest fires continue to advance throughout the country. Brasilia, for example, completed 107 days without rain and is seeing the burnings approach buildings in the federal capital. From January until Tuesday, 17, satellites of the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) recorded 123,786 outbreaks of fires in Brazil, 52% more than in the same period last year, when they were 81,393. In just over half of this month, there are 33,375 outbreaks.

In the Pantanal, the largest flooded plain in the world, about 90% of the fire outbreaks come from Pantanal, according to environmentalists and the state government. For this reason, the wave of fires will be the subject of an investigation by the Corumbá MPF. The municipality, the most important urban area of the Pantanal territory, is the first in the country with the hottest spots.

So far, research has pointed to the difficulties encountered by public institutions in fighting fires. There is a lack of material resources and people.

American experts investigate the cause of fire in Chapada dos Guimarães park in Mato Grosso. The fires have already destroyed nearly 50,000 hectares of green area in the park region. In the state of Mato Grosso alone there are more than 16,000 fires in less than two months.

In Altamira, Pará, the Federal Police identified deforestation and land grabbing areas of over 15,000 hectares in Indigenous lands that belong to the Ituna Itatá people.

The first days of September 2019 in Brazil are marked by 7,304 fire outbreaks in the Cerrado and 6,200 in the Amazon rainforest

According to data from the Bank of the Burn Program, of the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), indicate that the Cerrado surpassed the Amazon in the number of fire outbreaks in Brazil.

The main causes, according to experts, are fires caused by human action and those that spread due to the heatwave that affects the Cerrado region in recent days.

The Cerrado, the second largest biome in South America, is rich in biodiversity. Nearly 12,000 species of plants have been identified, along with thousands of different types of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, butterflies, and other animals. Despite its undeniable importance, according to the Ministry of Environment, only about 8% of the Cerrado is legally protected by protected areas.

According to Inpe, Brazil today has over 100,000 outbreaks of fire

Brazil has exceeded 100,000 outbreaks of fire, according to Inpe. In the municipality of Chapada dos Guimarães, army firefighters, brigade members, and military combat three major fires. One of them, inside the National Park.

A survey by the Acre Environment Secretariat in partnership with the Federal University of Acre (Ufac) Gamma Laboratory reports that the state in northern Brazil, in the Amazon region, had more than 27,000 hectares of degraded areas this year with burned.

Between January and August 2019 alone, more than 46,000 outbreaks of fires were recorded in the Amazon, an increase of over 100% over the same period in 2018.

The wave of out-of-control fires is not restricted to Brazil. In Paraguay, the fires produced destruction and a smokescreen that covered the Brazilian city of Ponta Pora. Today there are at least 2,580 fire outbreaks in various regions of Paraguay, 150 km from the Brazilian border.

Amazonia is burning! Number of fires in the Brazilian region grows scary 70%, in 2019

According to a research by the Programa Queimadas (Burning Program) of Inpe (Brazilian National Institute for Space Research), which measures the number of fire outbreaks in Brazil, the number of fires grew a staggering 70% in 2019 compared to 2018. 

The Amazon is by far the most affected biome as it accounts for over 50% of fires. The Brazilian Cerrado biome, in turn, is the scene of 30% of fire outbreaks. 

Most of the fires are produced by ranchers who want to turn the forest into an area for beef cattle production. The current drought in the region greatly facilitates the spread of fire.

Meanwhile, Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, during an event in the interior of São Paulo, said that much of the responsibility of the fires are of the state governments, which do not make the ideal control of fire outbreaks.

However, the Mato Grosso Fire Department, one of the states most affected by the fires, said it needed more support from the federal government. The Fire Department of Mato Grosso also said to see with concern the blockade of the Amazon Fund that, until this year, has invested R$ 12 million in structure to combat fire in the state.

The current government has refused to receive millions of reais sent from Germany and Norway to the Amazon Fund. President Jair Bolsonaro even said that Chancellor Angela Merkel should use the money to reforest Germany.

Deutsche Welle says German ministry of Environment will suspend funding for projects in the Amazon; Yanomami leader David Kopenawa denounces illegal gold mining in Roraima

Due to the sharp increase in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, the German Ministry of Environment has decided to suspend funding for projects to protect the forest and biodiversity, german Minister Svenja Schulze said in an interview with Tagesspiegel today, according to the website Deutsche Welle Brazil.

This decision comes after new data released by the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) confirmed the significant increase in deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. In July this year, the devastation of the biome grew 278% over the same month of 2018 according to the instinct.

This information cost the office of Inpe's president, Ricardo Galvão. President Jair Bolsonaro dismissed Galvão after the release of this information. President Jair Bolsonaro, after the dismissal of the president of Inpe, said the data released by the institute were "inaccurate", but did not indicate exactly where the inaccuracies were. He also mocked the media coverage surrounding Amazon deforestation by saying she was the "chainsaw captain".

Later this week, on a Facebook broadcast, president Jair Bolsonaro again argued for gold mining to be released in the Amazon region. He made this statement alongside indigenous people of the Raposa Serra do Sol reserve, which is in Roraima. Bolsonaro defends the possibility of liberation of the activity even in indigenous lands.

However, according to leader Yanomami Dário Kopenawa, despite the denunciations made by his people, "the prospectors are still there." Kopenawa is the son of historical Yanomami leader David Kopenawa. , he is fixing a problem for the Brazilian state ”, criticizes the young vice president of the Hutukara Yanomami association in Roraima.

Jair Bolsonaro criticizes Brazilian institute that collects data on deforestation of the Amazon rainforest

Following the release by the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) of Deter (Real-Time Deforestation Detection) data, President Jair Bolsonaro said Inpe's research is "negative propaganda abroad" that put Brazil "in a complicated situation." Bolsonaro seems to defend bullying as a public policy. He called Inpe's director a liar, said he's in NGO service.

According to Inpe, deforestation in the Amazon in June 2019 was 88% higher than in the same period in 2018. During this period, deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon reached 920.4 km².

President Bolsonaro's criticism led the scientific community to openly defend Inpe work. The president of the Institute, Ricardo Galvão, said that Bolsonaro took a "pusillanimous and cowardly attitude". For Galvão, the rudeness of the president, who said the Institute was lying, were statements that to him seem more like "talk at the bar".

Preliminary satellite data from Inpe show that more than 1,000 km² of Amazon rainforest was cleared in the first half of this month, equivalent to a 68% increase over July 2018.