Bolsonaro's authority is in threat, as Amazon loses a rainforest area the size of London in a one month.

 

September saw the destruction of a significant area as environmental criminals rushed to devastate the area

An area nearly the size of Greater London was lost to Amazon deforestation in the past month alone, escalating before Brazil's crucial presidential vote for the environment.

According to government satellite images, 1,455 square kilometers of rainforest were devastated in September as environmental criminals rushed to devastate the area before Jair Bolsonaro's period of devastation may come to an end with a potential change in president.

According to the monitoring group Climate Observatory, that number was up 47.7% from September 2018 and comparable to the damage done in September 2019—the first month of Bolsonaro's far-right

presidency. In August, deforestation increased by 81%.

Satellites found more than 41,000 fires in the Amazon, a 147% increase from September 2021.

The CEO of the Climate Observatory, Marcio Astrini, said, "This is a really hazardous period." A machine that decimates forests is the Bolsonaro administration.

Astrini said that the sombre statistics showed how criminal networks of illegitimate ranchers and loggers were rushing to remove the rainforest before Bolsonaro may be ousted in the second round of Brazil's presidential election on October 30. The former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a socialist, defeated Bolsonaro in the first round on Sunday, although he garnered more votes than surveys had predicted. 

They're taking advantage of Bolsonaro's remaining time in office to demolish whatever they can since they realise their president could lose the election, Astrini claimed.

The Amazon magazine Sumama revealed last month that over 2 billion trees had been destroyed over the previous four years. Additionally, up to 3.8 million monkeys and 89.9 million birds may have also been killed, hurt, or somehow impacted.

Given the Amazon's critical function as a carbon sink, Astrini claimed Bolsonaro's defeat was crucial to attempts to halt such damage and safeguard the global climate. He noted that 2022 had already witnessed 4% more deforestation than 2021 - and there were still three months to go - and warned that the future of the Amazon would be unknown if [this administration] was granted another four years.

Astrini remarked, "What's at risk is either us continuing to have any hope that the Amazon may be saved from collapsing - or definitely handing it over to environmental criminals."

In an effort to rebuild Brazil's worldwide reputation, which Bolsonaro's four years in government destroyed like the Amazon, reports in the Brazilian media claim that if he defeats Bolsonaro, Lula would organise an urgent climate meeting.

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