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Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon surges to 12-year high” – below is their description.
Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is disappearing at an alarming rate, with deforestation surging to a 12-year high.
Scientists say the rainforest has suffered losses at an accelerated rate since Jair Bolsonaro became president.
Bolsonaro weakened Brazil’s environmental enforcement agency and called for more farming and mining in protected areas, arguing it would lift the region out of poverty.
Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampietti reports from Bogota, Colombia.
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In This Story: Brazil
Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas, as well as the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country.
Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to diverse wildlife, a variety of ecological systems, and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats. Brazil is classified as an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank and a newly industrialized country.
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In This Story: Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a transcontinental country largely in the north of South America, with territories in North America. Colombia is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, the northwest by Panama, the south by Ecuador and Peru, the east by Venezuela, the southeast by Brazil, and the west by the Pacific Ocean.
The capital is Bogotá, the country’s largest city. With over 50 million inhabitants Colombia is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse countries in the world. The Republic of Colombia was declared in 1886. Panama seceded in 1903.
Colombia’s territory encompasses Amazon rainforest, highlands, grasslands, and deserts, and it is the only country in South America with coastlines and islands along both the Atlantic and Pacific.