US EditionDeforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen again in 2025
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Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has identified a 16.92% reduction in deforestation in the state of Amazonas between August 2024 and July 2025. A total of 1,016 km² of vegetation was destroyed, compared to 1,223 km² from August 2023 to July 2024. The data comes from PRODES (Project for Monitoring Deforestation in the Legal Amazon by Satellite). This is the lowest percentage since 2017, when 1,001 km² of deforested area was r…
Deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes decreased between August 2024 and July 2025, according to data from the Amazon Legal Deforestation Monitoring Project by Satellite (Prodes), from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe). In the Amazon, the decrease was 11.08% compared to the previous period, from August 2023 to July 2024. In the Cerrado, the decrease was 11.49%. The data were released last Thursday (30), by the Ministry of …
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen again in 2025
This year, 5,800 square kilometres (km2) were cleared, which was an 11% drop compared to last year. You can see this in the chart below, which shows deforestation rates since the late 1980s.This data comes from PRODES (Program for the Calculation of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon), which carries out satellite monitoring of the region to detect deforestation. It also incorporates data from DETER, which is a rapid alert system that tries to det…
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