General deforestation in the Amazon, which includes the total area and not just environmental protection sites, recorded a 62% drop in 2023, compared to the previous year. This is the lowest number recorded since 2018. The data comes from satellite image monitoring from the Imazon research institute.
According to the survey, in 2022, the deforested area was 10,573 km². In 2023, this number was 4,030 km². Despite the decrease, vegetation clearing still represents around 1,100 football fields per day.
According to the report, a worrying point in 2023 was degradation. In December, while 108 km² were deforested, another 1,050 km² were degraded, almost 10 times more.
In relation to the states that deforested the most in 2023, Pará, Amazonas and Mato Grosso remain at the top of the ranking. Of the nine states that make up the Legal Amazon, only three recorded an increase in destruction, Roraima, Tocantins and Amapá.
Check out the area deforested by state in 2023:
- Pará: 1,228 km²
- Amazon: 877 km²
- Mato Grosso: 864 km²
- Acre: 333 km²
- Roraima: 321 km²
- Rondônia: 206 km²
- Maranhão: 162 km²
- Tocantins: 21 km²
- Amapá: 18 km²
Indigenous lands
Deforestation in territories of original peoples dropped by 52% in 2023, compared to the previous year, it was the smallest area of ​​indigenous lands deforested since 2017.
In 2023, 104 km² were devastated, which is less than half of the figure recorded in 2022, which was 217 km².
Despite the reduction, some indigenous lands saw an increase in destruction. This is the case of the Igarapé Lage community, in Rondônia, and Waimiri Atroari, on the border of Amazonas and Roraima. Both had a 300% increase in deforestation. Yanomami lands, on the other hand, saw a 150% increase in deforestation.
The largest area destroyed in an indigenous territory in 2023 was in Apyterewa land, where 13 km² were deforested. Despite occupying the top of the ranking, the community had an 85% reduction in devastation compared to 2022, when it lost 88 km² of forest.
History of deforestation on indigenous lands:
- 2023: 104 km²
- 2022: 217 km²
- 2021: 263 km²
- 2020: 353 km²
- 2019: 369 km²
- 2018: 155 km²
- 2017: 70 km²
- 2016: 43 km²
- 2015: 38 km²
- 2014: 28 km²
- 2013: 56 km²
- 2021: 75 km²
Conservation units
The most impactful reduction was in conservation units in the Amazon, where deforestation in 2023 was the lowest recorded in nine years, since 2014.
In terms of comparison, in 2022, the devastation of indigenous lands and conservation units corresponded to an area of ​​1,214 km². In 2023, this number was 282 km², a reduction of 77%.
Conservation units are divided according to jurisdiction. In federal areas, the reduction in deforestation was greater, going from 468 km² in 2022 to 97 km² in 2023. The reduction was 79%, almost five times smaller.
In state areas, the devastation went from 746 km², in 2022, to 185 km², in 2023, corresponding to a drop of 75% less.
(Published by Duda Cambraia)
Source: CNN Brasil

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