Publication Date:
July 30, 2012
News Source:
Mongabay The European Space Agency (ESA) last week released an animation showing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon between 1986 and 2010.
The satellite images show land cover change in Rondônia, a Brazilian state known for its high rate of deforestation since the 1970s. Forests have been cleared in Rondônia mostly for low productivity cattle ranches and industrial soy farms.
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