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March 14, 2023

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Hit Record High for Month of February in 2023
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Brazil's national space agency warns in a new report that deforestation
in the Brazilian Amazon hit a new record high for the month of February
last month. About 124 square miles of rainforest cover was destroyed,
despite efforts by newly inaugurated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
to reverse rampant deforestation that was encouraged by his predecessor,
Jair Bolsonaro. This is Romulo Batista with Greenpeace Brazil.

Romulo Batista: "We just left behind a government that supported
deforestation and completely abandoned actions to control it. … As long
as the enforcement and control do not reach the entire region, illegal
deforestations may exploit that to ramp up the deforestation."



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