💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌳📉 In 2025, #Brazil’s #Amazon #deforestation fell over 23%, with clearing on #Indigenous lands at its lowest since 2016.

Researchers credit stronger enforcement, better satellite tracking, and market pressure for sustainable #farming. However, the #Cerrado still lost 55% of Brazil’s total forest, and #Batelão territory saw a 10,000% spike as #soy #farms pushed onto protected land.

👉 https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/amazon-deforestation-declines-as-brazil-reduces-forest-loss-nationwide/

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Amazon deforestation declines as Brazil reduces forest loss nationwide

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon biome fell by 23.5% in 2025 compared with 2024, according to a new report from MapBiomas, a Brazil-based land-use mapping project. Reductions in deforestation were recorded across the board in all of Brazil’s biomes, culminating in a 21% nationwide decrease in forest loss. In total, nearly 985,000 hectares (2.4 million acres) […]

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