Last week , the Brazilian authorities announced a 60 - day ban on starting raw forest fervidness in the South American country . But according to Brazil ’s National Space Research Institute ( INPE ) , 3,859 raw outbreaks were memorialize in Brazil in the 48 hour follow the ban amount into effect . Roughly 2,000 of those are in the Amazon rain forest .
While the far - right president of Brazil , Jair Bolsonaro , continues to lay claim that the number of fervour is actually low than it has been in previous years , research highlights a rise in deforestation . A bailiwick produced by the INPE in July showed that in June 2019 alone , the Amazon rainforestlostover 2,072 satisfying kilometre ( 800 square miles ) to deforestation , that ’s an country bigger than the Los Angeles metropolitan country . This is an step-up of 15 percent compared to the same full stop last year .
Bolsonaro claimed that the study was a lie , and was endorse by his ministers despite the data point being produced using a methodological analysis that has been tested for X . Since 2004 and before Bolsonaro took power , data like this help law enforcement to reduce the amount of disforestation in the land . The head of the INPE , Ricardo Galvao , was thensacked by the administration . This serves as yet another example of how the Brazilian political science has made practice sciencedifficultin the commonwealth since they took federal agency in January .
The incinerate prohibition has been seen as a move to appease international call about the Amazon ’s fires , but as activist Tasso Azevedo , who runs the deforestation - monitoring chemical group Mapbiomas , publish in the newspaperO Globo , the worst may be yet to come .
disforestation has continued to produce significantly over the past two calendar month and it rest legal to indiscriminately chop up down large wrapping of the rainforest . Azevedo believe that once the ban ends , the chopped tree will be burned down by the many private organization interested in turning the Amazon rainforest into something more profitable than a priceless habitat rich in biodiversity .
“ What we are experiencing is a real crisis , which can flex into a tragedy that will feature flak much tumid than the current ones if not stopped immediately , ” Azevedo writes , call in for the ban to be prolong until at least former November when the dry time of year ends .
[ H / T : The Independent ]
