(RFI).- Amazon Jungle in Brazil he registered his lower rates of deforestation for the first two-month period for 6 years. Figures published by the publication Institute of Human and Environment of the AmazonAmazon using satellite data confirms downward trend in deforestation since returning to power Ignacio Lula da Silva. A leftist president who arrived with a promise to end the destruction of the Amazon.

Romulo Batista, representative of the forest protection program of the non-governmental organization Greenpeace in Brazil, explains the reason for these positive figures: “The change in the government’s discourse in its actions to combat deforestation in the area is excellent federal news. Here in the Amazon, it has had a huge impact on reducing deforestation rates.”

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However, we are far from the goal of zero deforestation. They were lost 196 square kilometers, according to satellite data. “Historically, livestock farming is the main driver of deforestation in the Amazon. We are very far from the goal set by the National Climate Action Plan and the implementation of the Paris Agreement,” says Bautista.

Many people talk about the Brazilian Amazon, but several environmental organizations warn of degradation of the entire Cerrado region. “This sheet with the world’s greatest biodiversity and home to 5% of the world’s animals and plants He planet”, according to a WWF review. It is mainly found in Brazil, but also extends to the border regions of Paraguay and Bolivia.

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“The Cerrado has much less protection compared to the Amazon. There we also have livestock as an important process of destruction, as well as cultivation, especially soy, the vast majority of which is exported to other countries,” concludes Romulo Batista, representative of the forest protection program of the non-governmental organization Greenpeace in Brazil.

According to calculations by another international environmental NGO Mighty Heart. The pace of clearing has doubled in some agricultural regions of Brazil’s Cerrado in 2022, raising fears that the region, which is important for biodiversity and water resources, is being sacrificed.