Amazon deforestation accelerated more than 60% last month. That amounts to about one and a half soccer fields of rainforest being destroyed every minute of every day.
Amazon deforestation accelerated more than 60% in June over the same period last year, in what environmentalists say is a sign that the policies of President Jair Bolsonaro are starting to take effect.
The rate of rainforest destruction had been stable during the first few months of Bolsonaro's presidency but began to soar in May and June, according to Brazil's National Institute of Space Research , a government agency whose satellites also monitor the Amazon. An aerial view of deforestation in Brazil's Western Amazon on September 22, 2017. The rate of destruction has been increasing since 2012, and has soared in the past two months. 769.
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