The areas conducted in the Amazon made an increase of 18 % between August 2024 and March 2025, according to data from a survey conducted by the Amazon Environment Institute (IMAZON).
The “Forest Removal Calendar”, which was demobilized from August from the year to July of the following year, is considered due to the BIome rainy system. In the last measurement, from August 2024 to March 2025, the overthrow of 2,296 km. Between August 2023 and March 2024, the region was 1948 square kilometers.
The area is forced greater than the municipality of Palmas, the capital of Tokantin. Despite the increase, this destruction is almost 60 % less than the recorded between August 2020 and March 2021, when it was removed 5552 square kilometers, the largest destruction since 2008.
The deterioration of the forests, caused by the extraction of burning and registration, reached 206 square kilometers in March of this year, with a 90 % reduction compared to the same month last year, which recorded the highest rate of the historical series for a period of 2120 km.
However, there was an increase of 329 % in forest degradation, from 7925 square kilometers from August 2023 to March 2024 to 34,013 square kilometers of August 2024 to March 2025.
“Even if the indicators are less than these peaks, the growth that was observed in 2025 is a warning sign. We are in a time window that can allow the reversal of this scenario, where the rain is more frequent in the region. So, forest disorders are not severe when we compare with more dry months, as in June to October.
Only in March 2025, the removal of forests in the Amazon reached 167 square kilometers, an increase of 35 % during the same month last year, when 124 square kilometers were destroyed. Among the states, Mato Grosso caused the destruction in March, with a loss of 65 square kilometers (39 %). The second was the Amazon, with 39 square kilometers (23 %), and a third of Para, with 29 square kilometers (17 %).
Among the most prominent negative negative in March is the registration of the removal in the Rio Juma settlement, in Amazonas, which reached 14 square kilometers, equivalent to 1400 Fields football. It is a seven -fold area of reality actually PDS, one kilometer, the second most overlooked in March, on the Amazon soil.
