{"id":271612,"date":"2023-08-05T15:08:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=271612"},"modified":"2023-08-05T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:08:28","slug":"emergency-what-emergency-amazon-deforestation-falls-over-60-compared-with-last-july-says-brazilian-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=271612","title":{"rendered":"Emergency? What Emergency? Amazon Deforestation Falls Over 60% Compared With Last July, Says Brazilian Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0RICHARD ELDRED<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Brazilian Amazon has witnessed a remarkable 60% drop in deforestation compared to last year. The\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u00a0has the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by at least 60% in July compared to the same month last year, the Environment Minister, Marina Silva, has told the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news comes ahead of a regional summit that aims to prevent South America\u2019s largest biome from hitting a calamitous tipping point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exact figure, which is based on the\u00a0Deter satellite alert system<\/a>, will be released in the coming days, but independent analysts described the preliminary data as \u201cincredible\u201d and said the improvement compared with the same month last year could be the best since 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rapid progress highlights the importance of political change. A year ago, under the far-Right then President, Jair Bolsonaro, the Amazon was suffering one of the worst cutting and burning seasons in recent history. But since a new administration led by\u00a0Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva<\/a>\u00a0took power at the start of the year, the Government has penalised land grabbers, mounted paramilitary operations to drive out illegal miners, demarcated more indigenous land and created more conservation areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The results will bolster Lula, Marina and other Brazilian hosts of an Amazon summit designed to strengthen regional cooperation that will take place in Bel\u00e9m on 8th-9th August with the participation of the nine rainforest nations:\u00a0Brazil<\/a>, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas territory French Guiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silva said the acute threat of the climate crisis, which has brought record heat to many South American countries, meant the summit had to be more than a show of unity; it needed to produce concrete and continuous results to ensure the Amazon did not reach a point where it starts to dry up and die off, which scientists have warned is drawing closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has proposed that each country produces an action plan, that they jointly create a scientific panel to keep them updated with the latest data, and that they share best practices to achieve the three goals of the summit: protection of the forest and traditional peoples, and to combat inequality and strengthen democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key to the improvement in Brazil, which is home to 60% of the Amazon, she said, had been a strong target. \u201cThe main reason is the decision of Lula to aim for zero deforestation. Since then, we have created new conservation units and indigenous territories that have produced some results \u2026 Now we need to move towards a new model of prosperity that is less predatory, less damaging to local people and the forest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first six months of the year,\u00a0deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon<\/a>\u00a0fell by 34%, compared to the same period last year, according to the Deter satellite alert system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The figures for July, which is a more revealing month as it usually marks the onset of the clearance season, are still being collated, but Silva said they would show a significant improvement of \u201cat least 60%\u201d since the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Independent analysts believe this might even reach as high as 70%. \u201cIt\u2019s incredible, totally crazy,\u201d said Tasso Azevedo, a forest engineer and founder of the MapBiomas analytical group. \u201cThis is on course to be the sharpest fall since 2005. We are still figuring out why this is happening so fast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worth\u00a0reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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