The data similarly showed a drop in deforestation in the Amazon's neighboring Cerrado savanna of roughly 26% to 8,174 sq km, the lowest since 2020.

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The area of Amazon rainforest lost to fires in Brazil in July fell 65 percent compared to a year ago, the MapBiomas ...