Deforestation in Brazil compared with the area of Turkey

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Over the past 40 years, about a fifth of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has been deforested (Reuters 2008). Official statistics show that annual deforestation has been close to 20 000 square kilometres over the last 10 years, reaching a peak of 27 429 square kilometres in 2004, and then being reduced annually to 11 224 square kilometres in 2007 (INPE 2008).