Amazon loses 10,000 square kilometers of forests

INPE released data from the system Prodes, which calculates the annual rate of Amazon deforestation. Almost 10,000 km2 of forests were lost between August 2018 and July 2019, a 29% increase in comparison to the previous year. It is the highest yearly increase since 2008, when forest destruction rose by 31% in a 12-month period.