Brazil and the Amazon Forest The Amazon rainforest is the world's largest intact forest It is home to more than 24 million people in Brazil alone, including hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Peoples belonging to 180 different groups There's a reason the Amazon was the place that inspired scientists to coin the term "biodiversity" Forest degradation is a ubiquitous form of human disturbance of the forest landscape Activities such as selective logging and extraction fall short of total deforestation but lead to loss of biomass and/or fragmentation On the basis of remote sensing data at 30meter spatial resolution, Matricardi et al analyzed the extent of forest degradation across the entire Brazilian Amazon Ever since the mid 1900s, deforestation has occurred in Brazil, specifically within the Amazon Rainforest The Amazon is a rich natural ecosystem that has been massively dilapidated as a direct result of deforestation
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