For the first time since the start of validating and publishing logging alerts in the country, a decrease was observed in all biomes in 2019, with the exception of the Atlantic Forest (the tropical rainforest that extends alongside the coasts of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay), which remained stable.

In these six years, tree felling in Brazil destroyed an area equivalent to South Korea: more than nine million 880 hectares, of which 67 percent are in the Legal Amazon, which covers 5 million square kilometers.

This space corresponds to approximately 59 percent of the national territory, that includes the states of Acre, Amapa, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Para, Rondonia, Roraima, and Tocantins), and part of Maranhao.

The total area cleared in the country fell by 32.4 percent compared to 2023, while the number of validated alerts (those confirmed by the competent authorities) decreased by 26.9 percent.

In Brazil’s six biomes, deforestation totaled more than a million 242 hectares in 2024, equal to more than one million 829 hectares the previous year.

The Amazon represents 30.4 percent of the area with forest loss in Brazil (377,708 hectares). It is the second most affected biome and, along with the Cerrado, represents almost 89 percent of the area with progressive tree reduction by 2024.

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