Brazil's Amazon rainforest deforestation: Over 8,700 sq km of forest cover destroyed between Aug 2020-July 2021

- It is the second-worst year on record for the program's August-July reference period, behind only the 9,216 square kilometers deforested the previous year
- The latest annual figure is an increase of more than 90 percent since 2017-2018, the last full year before President Bolsonaro took office