They present a new Atlas of the Amazon that will help sustainable planning

Between 2000 and 2018, the advance of deforestation in the Amazon region accumulated the loss of 513,016 square kilometers of native forest, a territory equivalent to the surface of Spain.

The new Atlas of the Amazon presented this Tuesday will be a fundamental support for the planning of sustainable development, in order to face the rampant deforestation, the impact of illegal mining and the fires in that area known as the lung of the world.

This was pointed out to Efe by Carmen Josse, director of the environmental foundation EcoCiencia, which is part of the Amazonian Network for Georeferenced Socio-environmental Information (Raisg), which has been monitoring the environmental situation of the jungle for several years, and which presented its "Amazon Atlas Under pressure".

 

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