In June 2021, more than 900 square kilometers of rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon were destroyed, a ten-percent increase in comparison to the same month of the previous year. Most of the deforested area in the Brazilian Amazon occurrs in private land areas.
Monthly deforested area of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil from January 2019 to June 2021
(in square kilometers)
* The 'Legal Amazon' is an area of more than five million square kilometers, which comprises the Brazilian states of Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, and Tocantins.
This statistic was assembled using several releases of the publication.
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Imazon. (July 19, 2021). Monthly deforested area of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil from January 2019 to June 2021 (in square kilometers) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 13, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1030359/brazil-amazon-deforested-area-month/
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Imazon. (2021). Monthly deforested area of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil from January 2019 to June 2021 (in square kilometers). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: August 13, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1030359/brazil-amazon-deforested-area-month/
Imazon. "Monthly Deforested Area of The Amazon Rainforest in Brazil from January 2019 to June 2021 (in Square Kilometers)." Statista, Statista Inc., 19 Jul 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1030359/brazil-amazon-deforested-area-month/
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