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In the Amazon, forest degradation is outpacing full deforestation – Malaysia Sun
Forest that has been disturbed – but not cleared – by logging or fire can be hard to spot from satellites.
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has increased abruptly in the past two years, after having been on a downward trajectory for more than a decade. With the countrys president Jair Bolsonaro notoriously enthusiastic about expanding into the rainforest, new deforestation data regularly makes global headlines.
But what fewer people realise is that even forests that have not been cleared, or fully deforested, are rarely untouched. Indeed, just 20% of the worlds tropical forests are classified …
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