The minister, Izabella Teixeira, said Thursday at a deforestation seminar that the number of government inspectors in the region was upped to combat a new tactic by loggers, who are stripping smaller areas that are more difficult to detect by satellite. She didn't say how many inspectors have been deployed since the beginning of the year.
Teixeira says deforestation destroyed 4,600 square kilometers of Amazon rain forest in 2012. That was the lowest level since 2004, when 28,000 square kilometers were deforested.
She says that Brazil hopes to reduce deforestation to 3,925 square kilometers a year by 2020.
By Ruchi Singh
reporter
Park Sae-jin
swatchsjp@ajunews.com
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