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Deforestation in the Amazon

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Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon rainforest area spans about 8,200,000km2 across 9 countries, making it the largest rainforest in the world. The tree coverage in 1970 was 4.1m km2. In 2018, it was 3.3m km2. Between 2001 and 2013, the causes of Amazonian deforestation were:

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