The arc of deforestation

Forest cleared in Brazil’s Legal Amazon, by year of satellite detection

  • Cleared before 2008
  • Cleared since 2008
  • Forest
  • Savanna and other non-forest

Each year runs August to July and is assigned to the president who was in office for most of it. Percentages are relative to the Legal Amazon’s original forest area.

Source: INPE PRODES, Natural Earth
Clayton Aldern / Grist