In September at the United Nations, Bolsonaro said: “In the Brazilian Amazon region, an area as big as Western Europe, more than 88 percent of the rain forest remains untouched and pristine …” Here is our FactCheck:
. Its vast and diverse expanse of rivers, trees and vegetation sustains 10 percent of all species and 500 Indigenous communities. It produces about 6 percent of the world’s oxygen and is an enormous repository of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming.the forest stores the equivalent of five or six years’ worth of human-made carbon.
In September alone, the Amazon lost about 1,500 square kilometers to deforestation. That is roughly the size of greater London,“Environmental criminals raced to wreck the region before a possible change of president could bring Jair Bolsonaro’s era of destruction to an end,” the paper reported. “The Climate Observatory watchdog said that [deforestation] figure was up 47.7% compared with last September and on a par with the destruction wrought in September 2019, the first year of Bolsonaro’s far-right administration. August saw an 81% rise in deforestation.
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