Amazon deforestation

Amazon deforestation

A drone view shows a deforested plot of Brazil's Amazon rainforest in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo

Deforestation in Brazil Amazon hits nearly four-decade low

Between August 2025 and July 2026, 3,335 square kilometres of forest were cleared, a decline of nearly 42% over the previous year, official statistics show.

An aerial view shows cattle walking on a tract of the Amazon rainforest that has been cleared by loggers and farmers near the Virola-Jatoba Sustainable Development Project (PDS) in Anapu, Para state, Brazil, September 5, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Nacho Doce/File Photo

How China's evolving consumer habits may protect the Amazon rainforest

Piles of wood are seen during "Operation Green Wave" conducted by agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, to combat illegal logging in Apui, in the southern region of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, July 27, 2017. Photo: REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File Photo

What the COP30 climate summit in the Amazon delivered for forests and Indigenous people

A drone view shows a deforested plot of Brazil's Amazon rainforest in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo

Brazil's Amazon posts lowest deforestation in nine years

A drone view shows a deforested plot of Brazil's Amazon rainforest in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo

Brazil fines meat packers $64 million for buying cattle from deforested Amazon land

An aerial view shows a deforested area during an operation to combat deforestation at the Cachoeira Seca indigenous reserve, in Uruara, Para State, Brazil January 19, 2023. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls 57% in September

FILE PHOTO: Smoke from a fire rises into the air as trees burn amongst vegetation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 3, 2023. REUTERS/Leonardo Benassatto/File Photo

Switzerland, US donate $8 million to Brazil's fund to fight Amazon deforestation

FILE PHOTO: A view of a deforested area in the middle of the Amazon forest, near the BR-230 highway, known as Transamazonica, in the municipality of Uruara, Para, Brazil, July 14, 2021. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File Photo

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls 66% in August

An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Bruno Kell/File Photo

Replanting the Amazon could slow climate change. It's harder than it sounds

An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Bruno Kell/File Photo

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls in first month under Lula

An agent of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) gets ready before going to an operation to combat of deforestation, in Uruara, Para State, Brazil January 19, 2023. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

First Brazil logging raids under Lula aim to curb Amazon deforestation

An aerial view shows deforestation near a forest on the border between Amazonia and Cerrado in Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso state, Brazil July 28, 2021. Picture taken with a drone on July 28, 2021. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli/File Photo

Brazilian Amazon deforestation up 150% in Bolsonaro's last month

The Amazon rainforest is home to one in 10 known species on Earth. Photo: Getty Images via BBC

If Brazil legalizes more Amazon mining, it would drive deforestation, study says