Brazil’s forests in the Amazon increased by 92% in May 2025, compared to the same month last year, according to official monitoring data, which exposes Brazil’s environmental goals to a large setback according to followers, especially before the United Nations Climate Conference, which it organizes after months.
The area of the missing forest reached 960 square kilometers during that period, which is a little more than the area of New York City. This is the second highest total of May since the implementation of the current monitoring system in 2016.
This increase has warned of the impact of the annual decline in the removal of forests since 2023, when the Brazilian President began Luis Inacio Lula da Silva His third term, where he pledged during his campaign to end the removal of forests by 2030.
The Brazil monitoring system tracks the removal of forests from July 30 to August 1. Over the past ten months, forest removal has increased by 9.7% compared to the same period in the previous year.
The report of the forest removal, which is followed by the National Institute of Space Research, will be announced before the United Nations climate talks in November in the city of “Bilim” in the Amazon region.
Brazil is one of the ten largest countries in global warming gases in the world, as it contributes about 3% of global emissions, according to non -profit “Climate Control” organization.
And approximately half of these emissions comes from the removal of forests, which makes the efforts made to stop them is very important to fulfill the obligations of Brazil under Paris Climate Agreement For 2015.
The Amazon region represents almost twice the area of India, and it includes the largest rain forest in the world, and about two -thirds of it is inside Brazil. These forests store huge amounts of carbon dioxide.
It also contains about 20% of fresh water in the world, and it is also home to hundreds of indigenous tribes, some of which live in isolation, and there are 16 thousand types of known trees.
The Brazbel is preparing to receive the United Nations Climate Conference summit “COP30” in November in the city of “Bilim”, Amazon. The world is counting on the top to achieve progress in several urgent environmental and climate files, the most important of which is controlling the global temperature to settle under 1.5 degrees Celsius.