#Amazon deforestation increases 25 percent in Brazil
“#Amazon deforestation increases 25 percent in Brazil” Smoke rises from forest fires in Altamira, in Brazil’s Amazon region, in August 2019 Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon increased by a record 25 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2020, official data released Friday showed, increasing pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro to abandon his plans to…