14 DAY TRIAL // Data shared with the public by Brazilian forest monitoring agency IMAZON shows how, when compared to last year's figures, deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon have increased by as much as 88%.
Thus, these greenheads maintain that, according to their investigations and official reports, roughly 606 square miles of rainforest were cleared in this part of the world between April 2012 and April 2013.
However, just 322 square miles of rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon had been destroyed between April 2011 and April 2012.
Tree Hugger says that, in order to gain a better understanding of just how serious things are, one need only learn that the 606 square miles of rainforest cleared within said time frame are roughly the equivalent of 300,000 football fields.
For the time being, the only good news is that, when compared to deforestation rates reported back in 1995 (9,675 square miles of forest were lost at that time), these latest figures are indeed encouraging.