Amazon Deforestation - BBC News

Brazilian officials have told the BBC that there's been an aggressive increase in deforestation since the election of President Bolsonaro in January. <br /><br />An area of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of a football pitch is now being cleared every minute.<br /><br />The rainforest - which plays a vital role in regulating the Earth's climate - covers an area 20 times the size of Britain. Nearly two thirds of it is in Brazil.<br /><br />Crucially, it absorbs billions of tons of carbon dioxide every year and produces 20% of the oxygen in the earth's atmosphere.<br />David Shukman has been to see how decades of conservation efforts are being reversed.<br />