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The Minister of Environment, Carlos Minc, said this Monday (2) that deforestation in the Amazon between the months of November 2008 and January 2009 was lower than in previous years, according to Agência Brasil. The numbers in the detection of deforestation by the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) should be released this Tuesday (3), inform the agency.
Typically, the disclosure of the numbers in the System of Deforestation Detection in Real Time (Stop) is monthly, but because of increasing clouds in the Amazon region in recent months, which impedes the view of satellites, the Inpe preferred group data in the same quarter of the survey. Outbreaks of deforestation are given by the hold on the interactive map of the world Amazon.
Minc not commented on the percentage of reduction, but noted that in the eight months to November 2008 the deforestation fell by 40% compared to 2007. (Source: G1)
Source: Environment Australia
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