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27/02/2012
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The Amazon lost at least 33 square kilometers (km ²) of forest in January, according to data released by the Institute of Man and Environment in the Amazon (Imazon), which makes monitoring, parallel to the government, the deforestation of the region. The number may be underestimated because, in the period, 88% of the forest was covered by clouds, which prevents the visualization of the area by satellite.
Despite the variable coverage of clouds, clearing of vegetation accumulated between August 2011 and January 2012 (first six months of the official calendar of deforestation), 600 km ², is 30% less than the sum of the previous period (August 2010 to January 2011), which may indicate the continuation of the downward trend of deforestation in the region.
According to Imazon, Para led deforestation in January, with 15 acres of new clearings identified. Then appear Rondônia, with 11km ² felled, Mato Grosso, with 4 km ², Amazonas with 3 km ² and Acre, with 300 square meters of forest cleared in the period.
In the clearcut (total deforestation of an area), monitoring also records Imazom forest degradation, which includes heavily exploited forests by logging or fires. In January, the degradation increased by 54 square kilometers, mostly in Pará and Mato Grosso.
Deforestation in the period was responsible for emitting 3,2 million tons of CO ² equivalent (carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas).
The official monitoring of Amazon deforestation is done by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), which has not released the numbers in January. In the months of the rainy season in the Amazon, the institute brings together the alerts on a bimonthly or quarterly basis, to improve the quality of sampling.
Source: Environment Brazil
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