Tripled Deforestation Rates in Brazil
According to scientists from Imazon, a non-profit research institution in Brazil, the amount of deforestation that has happened in the Amazon since last March has about tripled. Unfortunately, this might only be part of the amount of deforestation that has happened since part of the satellite reading was unable to detect changes in parts of the rainforest due to cloud cover. Greenpeace, another nonprofit has also stated that a large contribution to the drought that happened in São Paulo could be due to the high deforestation rate that has occurred in the past year. A new detector program, Deter B, is planned to be implemented soon as it creates higher resolution images to track deforestation. Volney Zanardi, president of the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, hopes and believes that this new system will be adequate enough to catch acts of possible illegal logging and prevent other sources of deforestation from happening.
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