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Amazon deforestation highest ever on record, climbs over 100% in November

Destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest totaled 563 square km (217.38 square miles) in November, 103 per cent more than in the same month last year

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An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon in Brazil. File Photo: Reuters

Reuters Sao Paulo
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published on Friday.

Destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest totaled 563 square km (217.38 square miles) in November, 103 per cent more than in the same month last year, according to the country's space research agency INPE.

That would bring total deforestation for the period from January to November to 8,934 square km, 83 per cent more than in the same period in 2018 and an area almost the size of Puerto Rico.

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