Brazil’s Amazon saw worst deforestation levels in 15 years in 2022 Report

Interesting 17:40 20.01.2023

Brazil's Amazon experienced its worst levels of deforestation in 15 years in 2022, losing the equivalent of nearly 3,000 soccer fields a day, Ednews reports citing Anadolu Agency.

The report, released Wednesday by the Brazilian non-profit research institute Imazon, which promotes conservation and sustainable development in the Amazon, found that the region registered a fifth consecutive record in felling. 

The report said that between January and December 2022, deforestation reached 10,573 square kilometers (4,082 square miles), while overall deforestation from 2019-2022 reached 35,193 km² (13,588 square miles).

Bianca Santos, a researcher at Imazon, said she hopes the administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will prioritize the protection of the Amazon. 

Amid the high levels of deforestation, Santos underscored the need for effective measures to combat the ecological degradation, including "the demarcation of indigenous lands, the restructuring of inspection bodies and the incentive to generate income with the standing forest."

According to Carlos Souza Jr., a coordinator at Imazon, during the last month of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration, “there was an unbridled race to deforest, while the gate was open to cattle, land speculation, illegal mining and deforestation in indigenous lands and conservation units. This shows the size of the new government's challenge.”

Environmentalists and defenders of Indigenous peoples and their territorial rights have criticized Bolsonaro's environmental policies, insisting he has rolled back environmental protections, causing ecological destruction as illegal loggers, miners and ranchers have cleared large swathes of land in the Amazon.

In October at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 in Egypt, Lula vowed to reverse Bolsonaro's environmental policies, underscoring that there can be "no climate security for the world without a protected Amazon."​​​​​​​ 

He also pledged to safeguard the region's biomass, fortify inspection bodies and monitoring systems and to clamp down on ecological crimes.

In early January, Lula also fulfilled a campaign pledge, setting up an Indigenous ministry, and named two new ministers to safeguard the country's environmental policy and reverse Bolsonaro's policies -- Marina Silva, an Amazon rainforest defender as Brazil's environment minister again, and Sonia Guajajara, an indigenous person herself, as the country's first-ever minister for Indigenous peoples

Experts warn that Lula will face tough challenges to reverse Bolsonaro's environmental policies.

 

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