Brazil’s Amazon deforestation hits lowest level on record
Data show a 42 percent drop in forest clearance from a year earlier, giving Lula a boost before the election run-off.
The numbers are unambiguous: Brazil’s Amazon deforestation fell 42 percent year on year, reaching its lowest recorded level. That is not a rounding error or a seasonal blip. It is a structural shift in enforcement, monitoring, and political will, and it lands at a moment when President Lula needs exactly this kind of proof.
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