Brazil’s space research agency INPE recorded 10,129 square kilometers of deforestation (3,911 square miles) for its benchmark annual period from August 2018 to July 2019. Brazil's Amazon has been getting chopped down at larger rates since at least 2005. In the first half of July 2019, deforestation was 68 percent above that for the entire month of July 2018, according to INPE, Brazil’s federal monitoring agency. By Herton Escobar Nov. 22, 2019 , 4:40 PM.

With the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro disregarding the environment, Brazil had the highest rate of deforestation in 2019. It coincides with Chinese demand for forest commodities. Brazil’s deforestation is exploding—and 2020 will be worse. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon surpassed 10,000 square kilometers in 2019, the according to revised data from Brazil’s national space research institute INPE.

Despite the Bolsonaro administration’s attitude, Amazon deforestation fell in the first four months of 2019 by 40 percent from a year earlier, according to data from Imazon. The rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has risen to its highest level in 11 years, according to Brazilian government data released Monday. Brazil soy trade linked to widespread deforestation, carbon emissions.

In 2019, deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest spiked by 34% compared to the previous year, in part due to Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro. BRASILIA — Deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest was worse than previously reported in 2019, revised government data showed on Tuesday, during the first year of President Jair Bolsonaro, who is keen to develop the forest crucial to curbing global warming. Learn more. Funding for activities under Brazil’s national climate change plan has also been cut, from R$436 million for 2019 to R$247 million for 2020, a drop of more than 40%, INESC research showed. News > World > Americas Brazil rainforest deforestation soared 85% in 2019. by Claire Asher on 3 April 2019 .