PARIS: Earth lost an area of carbon-absorbing rainforest larger than Switzerland or the Netherlands in 2022, most of it destroyed to make way for cattle and commodity crops, an analysis of satellite data released on Tuesday (Jun 27) revealed. That is nearly a football pitch of mature tropical trees felled
PARIS: Earth lost an area of carbon-absorbing rainforest larger than Switzerland or the Netherlands in 2022, most of it destroyed to make way for cattle and commodity crops, an analysis of satellite data released on Tuesday revealed.
Brazil accounted for 43 per cent of the loss, with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Bolivia responsible for about 13 and 9 per cent, respectively. "Since the turn of the century, we have seen a haemorrhaging of some of the world's most important forest ecosystems despite years of efforts to turn that trend around," Mikaela Weisse, director of WRI's Global Forest Watch told journalists in a briefing.
Deforestation in Brazil surged during the four-year rule of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, and increased 15 per cent last year compared to 2021. Scientists fear that climate change and deforestation combined could trigger the accelerating transition of the Amazon basin from tropical forest to savannah, which could profoundly disrupt weather not just in South America but across the globe.
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