In 2018, Brazil had the highest deforestation figures in the Amazon region. Data shows that since August, illegal devastation has continued and affects, on average, 52 hectares of the Amazon per day. Now a new problem has been observed. More recent data, from the first 15 days of May, are the worst for the month in a decade, in which 19 hectares are lost per hour, on average, double the amount recorded in the same period in 2018.
The data collected was taken to the federal government, which confirmed it. One of the regions that has been most devastated is the Jamanxim Forest, a historical target of looting for timber from the BR-163 highway, which lost 3,100 hectares, which represents 4 football fields.
