Institute alerts for evidence of soil changes in the Amazon show areas that have been deforested, damaged by logging and show signs of burning or mining, as well as plant degradation from February 2016 to June 2020 in the Brazilian Legal Amazon.
The data indicates that deforestation and burning will be greater during this summer’s Amazon drought months, June-August, than in the same period last year.
It did the minimum until 2004, but became an important player due its energy matrix of medium carbon-intensity hydroelectric plants and local biodiversity,” said political scientist Eduardo Viola, professor at the Institute of International Relations at the University of Brasilia and senior researcher of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development.
Deregulation and deforestation
Bolsonaro’s appointment of Ricardo Salles as minister of the environment was another blow to environmental regulation.
He also has threatened to review the 334 environmental conservation units in Brazil, managed by the Chico Mendes Institute of Biodiversity, and dismantling the agency as he did with IBAMA, leaving the inspectors without the financial resources and autonomy to work.