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Brazil reports lowest Amazon deforestation figures on record

08/12/2010
Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has reported that the levels of deforestation in the country’s Amazon regions is reducing, with particularly goods results in Mato Grosso, Pará and Rondônia, often the worst affected states.

INPE said deforestation, which non governmental organisations have linked to the livestock and leather industries, had occured on 6,450 square-kilometres of land in the past year, a 14% reduction in the figure for the previous year, although higher than the 5,000 square-kilometre figure the government had been hoping for. This is the lowest total since the authorities in Brazil began measuring how much land was being deforested in the Amazon.


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