04 February, 2017
A stretch of rainforest 90 kilometers southwest of Macapá, Amapá, Brazilian Amazon. Nearly 90 percent of Amapá state is rainforest, including the Tumucumaque National Park, the world’s largest tropical forest park.
After declining from major peaks in 1995 and 2004, the rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased sharply in 2016, under pressure from logging, mining, agriculture and hydropower developments. The Amazon forest is one of Earth’s great ‘carbon sinks’, absorbing billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide each year and acting as a climate regulator. Without it, the world’s ability to lock up carbon would be reduced, compounding the effects of global warming.
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