FILE PHOTO: A tree burns in a deforested area in Jamanxim National Forest, in the Amazon near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil September 10, 2019. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Deforestation on protected indigenous lands in the Amazon was almost three times higher than the loss of trees in the region as a whole and the highest since 2008, according to a new study based on satellite imagery.
The data from Brazil's space research institute INPE studied by ISA, a socio-environmental NGO working with indigenous people, shows that between August 2018 and July 2019 deforestation on reservations reached 42,600 hectares.
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