12 years, 4 months ago

The changing face of Brazil’s deforestation

As Brazil reins in its deforestation of the Amazon, other regions are bearing the brunt of rapid economic expansion. The United Nations’ Panel on Climate Change has estimated that “deforestation and forest degradation contribute globally to approximately 17 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions” – the third-largest human cause of emissions into the atmosphere. Smoke from forest fires smears this satellite photo taken over Tocantins state “It is harder, but not impossible,” said INPE’s head of Amazon Monitoring, Dalton de Morrison Valeriano. INPE is finding that, as they get better at mapping Brazil’s forests from space, large landowners are having a harder time getting past the law – but illegal land grabs still persist. With few vehicles, Piaui’s Environmental Battalion rarely patrol outside of main cities Captain Ivanilde Alvez de Melo of Piauí’s is part of the military police’s “Environmental Battalion”.

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