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Figure 20:
Brazil managed to reduce deforestation in Brazil primarily through a targeted and strict enforcement effort using satel-
lite images to detect recent logging, followed by direct action by SWAT teams and investigators also of companies and networks,
dropping deforestation by 64–78%,
1988
5
0
10
15
20
25
30
35
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2013
Brazilian Amazon: Law enforcement operations cause
76% reduction in deforestation
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 1988-2013
Thousand square kilometres
Surface of Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area
5 Km
B
RAZIL
Forest disturbance
More still needs to be done
Forest disturbance location
registered in March 2014
Centre points of 5 km x 5 km
areas that were detected
with a significant loss of
forest greenness cover
(greater than 40%) over the
previous 12 months
Sources: NASA, Quarterly Indicator of Cover Change
(QUICC), accessed through Mongabay.com, May 2014.
Sources: Mongabay.com, May 2014.
