The Amazon rain forest spans nine countries and millions of square kilometers Due to deforestation, current estimates indicate only about 80 percent of the original rain forest remains In this lesson, you'll use ArcGIS Pro to create a map of deforestation in the Brazilian state of Rondônia Then, you'll predict how much deforestation would The rate of Amazon deforestation is now much slower than it used to be, having fallen nearly 80 percent since its most recent peak in 04 (see graph below)Yet roughly 224,000 square miles of the rain forest have still been lost since 1980, including more than 1,000 square miles per year in Rondônia from 1980 to 1992 Amazon rainforest deforestation map before and after Brazil and the Amazon Forest The Amazon rainforest is the world's largest intact forest It is home to more than 24 million people in Brazil alone, including hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Peoples belonging to 180 different groups There's a reason the Amazon was the place that inspired scientists to coin the term "biodiversity" Before and After
Pervasive Rise Of Small Scale Deforestation In Amazonia Scientific Reports
