🌳 Amazon deforestation reaches lowest level in a decade

• Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 11 percent between August 2024 and July 2025, the lowest level in nearly a decade.
• Authorities conducted 9,540 inspections during the year, an increase of 38 percent, and issued environmental fines totaling 520 million dollars.
• Over 4,500 pieces of machinery and livestock tied to illegal clearing were seized. Ibama and the Attorney General's Office filed over 75 joint civil lawsuits against deforestation and illegal burning cases.

Lowest deforestation level since 2015

Brazil has reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 11 percent over the past year. According to the country's National Institute for Space Research INPE, 5,796 square kilometers of forest were cleared between August 2024 and July 2025. This is the lowest level in nearly ten years.

Increased monitoring and coordination

The Environment Ministry attributes the decrease to stronger environmental enforcement, expanded satellite monitoring and improved coordination among federal agencies.

Ibama, Brazil's environmental enforcement agency, conducted 9,540 inspections during the year. That is an increase of 38 percent compared to 2024. The authorities issued environmental fines totaling 2.85 billion reais, equivalent to 520 million dollars. Over 4,500 pieces of machinery and livestock tied to illegal clearing were seized.

Ibama and the Attorney General's Office filed over 75 joint civil lawsuits against deforestation and illegal burning cases.

The figures come ahead of the climate summit

The results are being released a few weeks before Brazil hosts the UN climate summit COP30 in the Amazon city of Belem. There, the country will demonstrate its progress toward the goal of ending illegal deforestation by 2030.

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