Last year, 50 percent less area was deforested in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest compared to 2022, but deforestation in the Cerrado, a tropical wet savannah important for ecology and the climate, increased by 43 percent in the same period. This was reported by several media outlets citing the Brazilian space agency INPE. The Cerrado, which covers large parts of the country, is a vital ecosystem for storing water and CO2 and is also significant for biodiversity.