Clearance falls to its lowest level in roughly a decade
PRODES records a second consecutive large annual fall, bringing clearance to a level not seen since the mid-2010s, commonly reported as a figure around 6,000 square kilometres. The exact value is not asserted here because it could not be checked. Two sharp reversals of direction within four years is the strongest available evidence that the Amazon clearance rate responds to enforcement on a timescale of months.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Amazon Deforestation · ecological phenomenon · Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia · not located
- PPCDAm (Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon) · policy · Brazil · not located
- Satellite Deforestation Monitoring · technology system · Brazil · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
PRODES - Monitoring of the Brazilian Amazon Forest by Satellite
Supports the existence, method and shape of the annual clear-cut deforestation series for the Brazilian Legal Amazon from 1988 onward. V55 verification basis: the TerraBrasilis portal was probed in this session and returned EGRESS_BLOCKED; no annual value was retrieved. Every specific PRODES figure referred to in this pack is described as commonly reported and flagged as unchecked in the record that mentions it.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil · 1988-present · Partly verified
INPE PRODES annual deforestation series for the Legal Amazon, published via the TerraBrasilis portal
Recorded on Amazon Deforestation
- INPE begins the annual PRODES deforestation series
- Clearance reaches the highest annual figure in the record
- PPCDAm launched and DETER alerts begin
- The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed
- Annual clearance reaches its lowest recorded level
- INPE's director is dismissed after defending the deforestation data
- Clearance reaches its highest level since the mid-2000s
- Clearance falls to its lowest level in roughly a decade
Related
Related because they share a subject in the Atlas — never because the text looks similar.
- Clearance reaches its highest level since the mid-2000s · 2021
- INPE's director is dismissed after defending the deforestation data · 2019
- Annual clearance reaches its lowest recorded level · 2012
- The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed · 2006
- PPCDAm launched and DETER alerts begin · 2004
- Clearance reaches the highest annual figure in the record · 1995
- INPE begins the annual PRODES deforestation series · 1988