Forest corresponding to a surface area of 30 football pitches are being converted every minute

Last year, the world lost twelve million hectares of rainforest. It is an area almost as large as Greece, a survey shows that Global Forest Watch. The affected rainforests stretching from Brazil and West and central Africa to Indonesia. The countries that harvested most rainforest is Brazil, which devastated nearly three times more than the Congo-Kinshasa. In third place is found to Indonesia which is the world's fourth most populous nation.

"We are not in the vicinity of to win this battle," says Frances Seymour of the World Resources Institute, which is responsible for the study.

In fourth place, Colombia, where skövlingarna increased significantly after the state made peace with the Farc-guerrillas three years ago. The colombian part of the Amazon is now open for logging.

– For every acre we lose, we are one step closer to the scary scenarios of runaway climate change, " says Frances Seymore to the BBC.

the statistics depends on the last year's election campaign where the leading candidate Jair Bolsonaro promised boskapsfarmarna that he would give the authorities less resources and replace the managers if he got elected. It made to the illegal logging increased last year. The country's then-minister of the environment, Edson Duarte realized the risks early and warned.

" We must mobilize on all levels of government, society and the productive sector in order to combat this illegal activity,” he said in a statement last year.

It never happened. Despite the fact that skövlingarna increases continue the environmental awareness in Brazil at a low level. When Greta Thunberg, called the world's students to klimatstrejk it was only two of Rio de Janeiro's thousands of schools that participated in the strike. What helps to keep environmental awareness at a low level is to Bolsonaros government is doing its best to portray the climate debate as orchestrated by the marxist mafia. Conspiracy theory presented by the Brazilian minister of foreign affairs Ernesto Araújo, and has received the support of the country's vice president, general Hamilton Mourão. Last year, said the general to ”the climate debate is being used by the rich world to be able to continue to dominate”.

the news that the global study shows is that Indonesia managed to reduce its logging by up to 40 per cent. It is the country's lowest skövlingsnivå since 2003. What lies behind the positive change is that it occurred to the unusual amount of rain in the last two years. It has reduced the fires in the rainforest. But also an initiative from Norway, play in. The Norwegian government compensates Indonesia for the environmental benefit of the world do when Canada no longer harvest its valuable rainforest. Indonesian authorities have also tightened the monitoring of their rainforest.

– Our law enforcement, shows that we take it seriously, " says Belinda Margono, from the indonesian ministry of the environment to the BBC.

2015 raging in two months, hundreds of millions of people and made Indonesia one of the world's largest emitters of carbon dioxide in that year the government took 2016 vigorous efforts to protect the woodlands. It was, inter alia, not to approve new requests to convert forest to cropland. Representatives of several companies are also suspected of involvement in the fires.