Mariana Olivera, a forest expert at the World Resource Institute in Brazil, did not reveal the words when the Wildfire destroyed her country.
He said, “Last year, Brazil experiences the most intense and widespread doubt in seven decades. With high temperatures, the fire spread to an impenetrable scale through the country,” he said, talking with reporters. “This is a very difficult year for us.”
How difficult it was to Brazil and worldwide a new report from the World Resource Institute’s Global Forest Watch Platform and the University of Maryland at the US. Tree cover loss data shows that wildfires are responsible for about half of destruction, breaking the records, breaking the records, breaking the global temple for a terrible increase in one loss in the world worldwide in 2024.
The fire destroyed five times the primary tropical forests last year compared to 2023, especially in Latin America. This led to the first cause of tropical primary forest loss, beyond agriculture.
Which countries were affected by the wildfire?
Brazil, which is set to host the COP30 Climate Change Conference in November, is the worst year of SAW for forests since 2016. Some 2.8 million hectares (7.0 million acres) of the old-development forest were erased, slightly smaller than Belgium.
Two-thirds of that loss was due to primary fire savings by human activity. Around 80% of what in the THMANTANT, often the world’s lungs are called the world’s lungs for its important role in heating carbon dioxide.
Forests not only reduce the effects of climate change, but also affect local temperature and rainfall – and everything that is disappointed at him, including agriculture and human health. Strong, biodivier one shelter ecosystems, which, in turn support the livelihood of one -third of the world’s population.
Hot, dry condition and severe drowht experience in Brazil, large, greater wide blazes in South America, specificly increased in Bolivia and Colombia. But with mining and logging operations, agriculture, specific soy and land clearing for the farm, ie in Colombia, specificly contributed to forest destruction.
In the Congo Basin, Primary Forest Africa, was one of the world’s last major carbon sinks. In one of the poorest regions in the world, locals rely on forests for food and fuel. The struggle in the Democratic Republic of Congo has put the tree cover at risk. But here too, in the neighboring Republic of Congo, the fire was behind 45% of destruction.
Why are wildfires’ getting ‘more intense’
Rod Taylor, director of Forest and Nature Conservation at the World Resource Institute, said, “Many of the underlying cause is climate change, which is eventually fuel by human activities.” But, he said, the world has entered a new amplified phase, a “a real climate change response loop where the fire is still much more intense and too cruel as they are ever.”
Taylor told DW that as the forests dried up and become rapidly humiliated, the fire broke out, which once smelled on their own, is spreading further. “Instead of being resistant to fire, [forests are] Tinder, ready to go. ,
The loss of the forest was not focused only in the tropical. Major wildfires in Northern Borial forests in places like Canada and Russia added to the records of 30 million hectares worldwide in 2024, joined the 4.1 Gigetton Greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere with global wildfire.
Sarah Carter, a research associate at the Global Forest Watch, reported that unlike tropical forests, fire borials are part of the natural process in the forests. But, even, “the condition of the dryer is seen as a climate warm of feedback loops of more intense fire.”
How countries have reduced the loss of forest due to forest fire
However, some countries managed this trend in deer. Indonesia saw 11% decree in forest losses in 2024 that Carter said that part, fire prevention and response efforts and private sector and local communities work.
Primary forest destruction whether in neighboring Malaysia thanks to the harvesting laws of strict forests and increased commitment to corporations. A part of success in these two countries can be attributed to the local communities and private sector simultaneously banding and new apps and shared data using the huge and ecosystems in the ecosystems to share the huge and ecosystems in the vast area – and stop them.
“The advantage of this information is that it is available near real time, so you get the thesis alert almost every day, which tells you where the forests are lost,” Carter told DW. This, she said, with policy action at the government level, can help protect the forests left by us. “This is important for that information.”
Mat Hansen, a professor at the University of Maryland and co-director of the Global Land Analysis and Discovery Lab, said that efforts to reduce forest loss were being challenged at a time when the regime is weakening worldwide, especially in the US. Such information like this, although “frightening,” all are more important.
“This data must grow much more than anxiety,” Hansen said, and instead pushed governments and people to work.
Anke Rasper contrary to this report.
Edited by: Sara Stephen
