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HomeEnvironmentBrazil keeps protecting Indigenous land in the Amazon. It’s not stopping deforestation.

Balanced News: Brazil keeps protecting Indigenous land in the Amazon. It’s not stopping deforestation.

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Indigenous territories and protected areas in Brazil’s Amazon forest see higher and faster rates of deforestation than unprotected areas. That’s according to a new study in Nature that says despite an expansion of protected areas and increased recognition of Indigenous territory across 52 percent of the Brazilian Amazon from 2000 to 2021, forest loss has increased in those areas at an alarming pace. However, between 2018 and 2021, the relative rate of gross forest loss was higher in protected areas and Indigenous territories, nearly double that of non-protected areas.

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