{"id":4049,"date":"2024-05-28T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T11:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brasil.mapbiomas.org\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2024-07-18T23:44:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T23:44:56","slug":"matopiba-passa-a-amazonia-e-assume-a-lideranca-do-desmatamento-no-brasil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brasil.mapbiomas.org\/en\/2024\/05\/28\/matopiba-passa-a-amazonia-e-assume-a-lideranca-do-desmatamento-no-brasil\/","title":{"rendered":"RAD 2023: Matopiba overtakes the Amazon and takes the lead in deforestation in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than half of the entire area deforested in Brazil in 2023 occurred in the Cerrado, mainly in the Matopiba region between Bahia, Piau\u00ed, Tocantins and Maranh\u00e3o; the latter took the lead among the states that deforested the most last year<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 28, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last five years, Brazil has lost 8,558,237 hectares of native vegetation, the equivalent of twice the size of the state of Rio de Janeiro. However, 2023 represented a turning point in this process, according to data from the most recent edition of MapBiomas' RAD - Annual Report on Deforestation in Brazil. Firstly, because there was an 11.6% drop in the area deforested: in total, 1,829,597 hectares of native vegetation were cleared in 2023; in 2022, this total was 2,069,695 hectares. This reduction occurred despite an 8.7% increase in the number of alerts compared to 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

>> Access the main highlights of RAD 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

>> Access RAD 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brazil's two largest biomes - the Amazon and the Cerrado - account for more than 85% of the country's total deforested area. But <\/strong>For the first time since the MapBiomas Alert series began in 2019, the Cerrado overtook the Amazon in terms of deforested area. In 2023, the Cerrado accounted for 61% of the deforested area across the country and the Amazon for 25%. There were 1,110,326 hectares deforested in the Cerrado in 2023, an increase of 68% compared to 2022. Almost all of the country's deforestation (97%) was driven by agricultural expansion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

>Cerrado also leads deforestation in protected territories<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together, four Cerrado states - Maranh\u00e3o, Tocantins, Piau\u00ed and Bahia, which make up the region known as Matopiba - surpassed the area deforested in the Amazon states and accounted for almost half (47%) of all the loss of native vegetation in the country last year. There were 858,952 hectares - an increase of 59% compared to 2022, which had already seen an increase (36%) compared to 2021. Three out of every four hectares deforested in the Cerrado in 2023 (74%) were in Matopiba. Two-thirds (33) of the 50 municipalities with the most deforestation in Brazil in 2023 are in the Cerrado, and all 10 municipalities with the largest deforested area in the Cerrado in 2023 are located in Matopiba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe data shows the first drop in deforestation in Brazil since 2019, when the RAD began to be published. On the other hand, the face of deforestation is changing in Brazil, concentrating in biomes where savannah and grassland formations predominate and reducing in forest formations,\u201d says Tasso Azevedo, MapBiomas coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RAD 2023: Deforestation reduced in the Amazon states; see the situation in the biomes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidence of illegality in deforested areas prevails from the north to the south of Brazil<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dos quatro estados do Matopiba apenas o Piau\u00ed teve redu\u00e7\u00e3o da \u00e1rea desmatada. Nos demais – Bahia, Tocantins e Maranh\u00e3o –  a \u00e1rea desmatada cresceu. O Maranh\u00e3o saiu da quinta posi\u00e7\u00e3o para a primeira posi\u00e7\u00e3o pela primeira vez, com um aumento de 95,1% e totalizando uma perda de 331.225 hectares de vegeta\u00e7\u00e3o nativa. No caso do Tocantins, o crescimento foi de 177,9%. Com 230.253 hectares desmatados, o estado foi o terceiro maior desmatador do pa\u00eds em 2023, atr\u00e1s da Bahia, com 290.606 hectares e um crescimento de 27,5% em rela\u00e7\u00e3o a 2022. O ranking dos cinco estados com maior \u00e1rea desmatada no Brasil inclui dois l\u00edderes hist\u00f3ricos \u2013 Par\u00e1 e Mato Grosso \u2013 por\u00e9m com sinal invertido: queda de 60,3% no primeiro e de 32,1% no segundo. O desmate em territ\u00f3rio paraense foi de 184.763 hectares; no Mato Grosso, 161.381 hectares.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This change was also reflected in the type of vegetation suppressed. <\/strong>In 2023, for the first time, there was a predominance of deforestation in savannah formations (54.8%) followed by forest formations (38.5%) which predominated in the first four years of the survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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