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Brazil: record reduction in deforestation

Written by Sevencam
Saturday, 14 November 2009 00:00

The Brazilian government has recorded the lowest annual deforestation rate in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest in the past 21 years.

Annual figures collected by the country's space research institute show that 7,000 square kilometres of trees were cut down in the Brazilian Amazon in 2009, compared to 12,900 square kilometres in the previous year.

This represents a decrease of 45 per cent, which President Lula da Silva hailed as "extraordinary". The announcement comes ahead of the United Nations climate change summit in December, where Brazil is expected to announce targets for cutting carbon emissions and deforestation.

The environmental group Greenpeace has welcomed the figures, but warns that the decrease in deforestation might have been driven by a fall in demand due to the global economic crisis.

This news story was originally featured on the Panos London website.

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