Deforestation in Amazon jumps 100% in November over same month last year

Deforestation in Brazil has reached its peak in month of vember since it first began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published on Friday. Destruction of Amazon rainforest totalled 563 square kilometres in vember which is 103 per cent more than in same month last year, according to country's research ncy INPE.

Bolsonaro blamed

researchers and environmentalists have blamed right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro for encouraging industrialist, ranchers and loggers by calling for Amazon to be developed. y have also blamed him for weakening environmental ncy Ibama and destructing world's largest tropical rainforest. On or hand, Bolsonaro and Environment Minister Ricardo Salles have blamed previous governments for increase in deforestation, saying policies including budget cuts at environmental ncies were in place well before new government took office on January 1.

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data released by INPE was collected through DETER database which is a system that publishes alerts on fires and or s of developments affecting rainforest. DETER numbers are t considered official deforestation data. official data comes from a different system called PRODES which is also mand by INPE. PRODES numbers, released last month showed deforestation rose to its highest in more than a dece this year, jumping 30 per cent from 2018 to 9,762 square kilometres.

Last month, Human Rights Watch accused Brazilian president of giving a 'green light' to illegal loggers to destroy Amazon and failing to protect those defending world's largest rain forest. Bolsonaro, whose anti-environment rhetoric and policies have been widely blamed for a spike in fires and land clearing in Amazon this year, has promised to open up  remote region to more development even as he faces growing international criticism. Bolsonaro also accused actor Leonardo DiCaprio of donating $500,000 to a group that he said started fires in ecologically sensitive Amazon Forest. DiCaprio however, denied  allegations. 

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