BRASïLIA: Brazil’s environment minister demanded urgent action on Thursday (Friday in Manila) to reverse double-digit rises of as much as 52 percent in the rate of deforestation in some Amazon regions over the past year.
Agricultural production has been blamed for the spike but enforcement has also been lax in a giant country encompassing around 8.5 million square kilometers (3.3 million square miles), around three fifths of which is forest.
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