The Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rose nearly 11 percent from August to December 2010, compared with the same period in 2009. For United Nations (UN) Latin America still lags behind in the fight against deforestation.
The National Institute for Space Research of Brazil, Ministry of Science and Technology, in the last five months of 2010 square kilometers were deforested jungle 1267. The figure is 85 percent of the area of \u200b\u200bthe Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo. In the same period in 2009 had cleared 1144 square kilometers of forest.
This will cut a tendency to reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, which already had two consecutive years. Other studies have questioned the results obtained satellites now, so further research to know for sure whether or not further increased deforestation in the country.
"Where there's smoke there's fire, but we'll have to wait a little longer to see if there was a reversal of the trend of deforestation brake," said Policy Director for Combating Deforestation Ministry of Environment, Mauro Pires was quoted by O Estado de S. Paulo.
The National Space Research Institute estimated that from August 2009 to the same month of 2010 square kilometers were deforested jungle 6451 Amazon. Brazil envisaged by law to reduce by 80 percent the rate of deforestation of the Amazon 2020. This activity is among the leading worldwide generating greenhouse gases that cause climate change.
On February 2, officially launched the UN International Year of Forests at its headquarters in New York, United States, to call attention to the need to manage, conserve and sustain the forest resources of the planet. It is estimated that at least 1600 million people rely on them to live.
The UN agency Food and Agriculture, FAO, took the opportunity and lamented that Latin America will fall further behind in the fight against deforestation, compared with other regions of the planet.
According to EFE, the director general of the FAO Forestry, Eduardo Rojas, said that the forest in South American countries fell in the last decade from 904 000 000 864 000 000 hectares.
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