As published by the G1 website, a survey by the Observatório do Clima based on data from the Brazilian government indicates that amid the 29.5% increase in deforestation and increasing Amazonian burning in 2019, the fines filed by the Brazilian Institute Environment (Ibama) went against environmental crimes. The infraction notices registered from January to November 2019 are the lowest in the last 15 years.
These areas, for the most part, are “forests are public, that is, it is the heritage of all Brazilians, which is illegally dilapidated to be in the hands of a few,” according to Ipam executive director André Guimarães.
Also according to an analysis by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (Ipam), 35% of the deforestation that occurred in the Amazon between August 2018 and July 2019 was recorded in unassigned areas and without information. According to Ipam, 35% of the deforestation that occurs in the Amazon is the result of land grabbing. In 2019, the devastation was the biggest in ten years and had the biggest high of the century.
