Deforestation – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:32:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png Deforestation – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 Venezuelan Amazon deforestation expands due to lawlessness, mining, fires https://onvenezuela.com/venezuelan-amazon-deforestation-expands-due-to-lawlessness-mining-fires/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuelan-amazon-deforestation-expands-due-to-lawlessness-mining-fires Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:32:01 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=15842

More than 140,000 hectares (346,000 acres) of primary forest in the Venezuelan Amazon were lost between 2016 and 2020, deforestation that was driven by illegal mining, agricultural expansion, and fires. This is according to a report generated using extremely high-resolution satellite images and published by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP). By by Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres. Full Text -> MongaBay

Traducción de cortesía -> Más de 140.000 hectáreas (346.000 acres) de bosque primario en la Amazonía venezolana se perdieron entre 2016 y 2020, deforestación impulsada por la minería ilegal, la expansión agrícola y los incendios. Así lo revela un informe generado a partir de imágenes satelitales de altísima resolución y publicado por el Proyecto Monitoreo de la Amazonía Andina (MAAP).

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