Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Map 2019

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Amazon rainforest deforestation map 2019. Accessed september 26 2019. The rate of deforestation in the amazon rainforest has risen to its highest level in 11 years according to brazilian government data released monday. The grid of maps below show the month by month pattern of fires across the amazon rain forest in brazil each year since 2001. Base map showing overlapping 2019 deforestation and fire hotspots in brazil.

The map shows deforestation which. Amazon deforestation peaked in late 1990s and early 2000s. Thanks to a. Mongabay 2019 the amazon rainforest.

The map at the top of this page depicts all of the fires that satellites detected in key parts of amazonas and pará states between june 1 and august 3 2020. The 2019 amazon rainforest wildfires season saw a year to year surge in fires occurring in the amazon rainforest and amazon biome within brazil bolivia paraguay and peru during that year s amazonian tropical dry season. Nasa earth observatory 2017 october 31 the amazon makes its own wet season. National geographic the human.

The major roadways that run through the rainforest had large clusters of deforestation fires red and occasional understory forest fires light green. Orange areas show that at least 125 000 hectares 310 000 acres the equivalent to 172 000 soccer fields were cleared through 2019 and then burned in august in the brazilian amazon. In the worst phases of those peak deforestation periods over 10 000 square miles of forest could be cut down in a year much of that. Accessed september 26 2019.

Pointed out on twitter deforestation rates in the amazon have indeed spiked since 2013 but they are still lower than the levels of deforestation reported in the 1980s and 90s.