🇧🇷📡This week, Brazil broke two more –rather alarming– records:

Historic increases in deforestation, and historic increases in land conflicts. Come with us to untangle the unfortunate record breaking track keeping environmental protectors awake at night🧵

#WorldEnvironmentDay
The Pastoral Land Commission @cptnacional published its 2020 report. Violence in rural areas reached an all time high: 1576 occurrences of conflicts over land, since 1985, when the reporting began. Also a 25% increase to 2019 and 57.6% to 2018.
#ConflictsInTheFieldBrasil2020
On Friday, we've learned that deforestation in the Amazon surpassed 1K km2 in a month for the first time since
@inpe_mct Deter-B started monitoring, in 2016. Also an increase of 41% to the same period in the previous year.

oc.eco.br/en/novo-record… #ClimateEmergency
This would be worrying in itself, but in April @imazon also registered record deforestation: 778 square kilometers of forest were cleared, an increase of 45% compared to 2019...
🌎🚨According to data from @inpe_mct , record deforestation increases in Brazil not only happened in May and April, but also in March 2021, both in the Amazon and in the Cerrado Biomes.

#ClimateCrisis #WorldEnvironmentDay
And to make things worse, @inpe_mct just informed that the number of #fires in the Amazon in the month of May was the highest since 2007. And the fire season has just begun, with the southern forest at critical fire risk.

#Brazil #ClimateEmergency #WorldEnvironmentDay
Unfortunately, Brazil ALSO had record fires registered in the Pantanal biome in 2020, and in the Amazon in 2019, when the fateful "Day of Fire" took place, as reported by @Reuters

reuters.com/article/us-bra… #ClimateCrisis
You'd think this is enough, but Brazil also broke records in the use of pesticides, according to a reporting by
@guardian in 2019, and again in 2020, as @agenciapublica and @reporterb published earlier this year...

theguardian.com/environment/20… #ClimateCrisis #WorldEnvironmentDay
There are other record that help explain the above mentioned records:

Brazil has the smallest budget for the environment in 21 yrs. Those who fight deforestation, increasingly have their hands tied...

See search results for "budget" in our monitor⬇️ sinaldefumaca.com/en/?s=budget
We can spend a long time listing the records broken by Brazil's government when it comes to deforestation, violence and dismantling public infrastructure.

Our intention is not generating fear, but what happens in the tropical forests impacts all of us🌱🌏

#WorldEnvironmentDay

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