The destruction continues unabated.
City-Size Tract of Amazon Forest Cleared in April
06/11/2008, National Geographic Brasil via Amazonia
In just a month, an area nearly the size of New York City was cleared in the Amazon rain forest — an "alarming" and "worse-than-imagined" development, the Brazilian government said in a statement.
At least 433 square miles (1,123 square kilometers) were deforested in Brazil in April 2008. That's eight times more than the 55 square miles (145 square kilometers) destroyed the month before, according to data released last week by the Brazilian National Space Research Institute (INPE), which monitors the Amazon.
The results suggest that the deforestation rate has accelerated, INPE said.
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