Amazon deforestation rose 17% in ‘dire’ 2020, data shows
2021-04-08 04:36
The loss of primary forest — the clearing of old-growth, intact forest for the first time — hit its third-highest annual total on record since 2000, reaching 2.3 million hectares.
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