In Brazil’s nature ecosystems for the first time in six years, according to a statement released months before the nation’s key UN climate conference, deforestation slowed for the first time in six decades in 2024. The entire area deforested in South America’s largest nation was 1.24 million acres, or 32.4 percent less than in 2023, according to a report released on Thursday by the monitoring company MapBiomas. The next time in a column saw lower forest, with 2023 seeing a decrease of 11 percent from the previous month. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the head of communist politics, wants to end illegal deforestation by 2030 and asserts that Brazil must become a head in the fight against global warming, where carbon-absorbing trees are crucial. Despite the advancements, Brazil also lost more than 8, 000 football fields every day in 2024, losing about 3, 403 acres of indigenous vegetation. The Amazon, the Atlantic Forest, the Cerrado, the Caatinga, the Pantanal, and the Pampa are among Brazil’s six ecosystems, each with its own culture, foliage, and animal existence. According to the report, logging destroys an average of 1, 035 acres per day, or” about seven branches per second,” in the Amazon, the largest tropical forest on the planet, primarily clearing area for crops. The Cerrado, a tropical savanna prosperous in wildlife, lost 652, 197 acres, which is equivalent to the megalopolis of Sao Paulo, losing the biome for the next year in a row. According to the report, two-thirds of Maori lands had no forest recorded in 2024. Forest is the intentional loss of foliage, and it does not contain jungle fires, which were blamed on extreme heat and drought and worsened by climate change, but reached record levels in Brazil last year. In November, the Tropical town of Belem is scheduled to host COP30, the next round of UN climate talks.
