Deforestation in the Amazon is driven more by domestic demand than by the export market, finds study
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Deforestation in the Amazon is driven more by domestic demand than by the export market, finds study
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-deforestation-amazon-driven-domestic-demand.html
Brazilian Legal Amazonia (BLA)—which comprises the entirety of the Amazon Basin located in Brazil and vast adjacent swathes of the Cerrado, spanning nine states—is more than 5 million square kilometers (km2) in area and corresponds to almost 60% of the country's land mass. Almost a quarter of this area (23%) has been deforested, and over 1 million km2 are degraded, so that the region risks reaching an ecological tipping point at which ecosystems collapse and billions of tons of carbon are released into the atmosphere.