Deforestation of land occupied by Brazil's isolated tribes doubled in 2019 - report

FILE PHOTO: Indigenous people in Brazil, who are considered uncontacted by anthropologists, react to a plane flying over their community in the Amazon basin near the Xinane river in Brazil's Acre State, Brazil, March 25, 2014. REUTERS/Lunae Parracho/File Photo/File Photo

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Deforestation of lands occupied by isolated indigenous tribes in the Brazilian Amazon more than doubled between July 2019 and July 2018 to the highest rate in more than a decade, according to a new report released on Tuesday.

About 21,000 hectares of land were cleared, a jump of 113% from the preceding year, Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental said, using government data compiled from satellite imagery to calculate the figure.