A new report suggests that the Amazon rainforest will be hit hard in 2024 after Brazil’s deforestation rate is reduced by nearly 50 percent in 2023, according to a 22 January 2025 news release.In mid-October, the Global Initiative to Combat Transnational Organized Crime (GICTOC) reported that large-scale fires are raging in the Amazon Basin, where illegal gold miners and land-grabbers set fires in order to clear forests for digging, livestock and crops such as soybean oil, and that the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed by the use of illegal gold miners and land-grabbers to clear the forest. Soybean, palm oil and other crops. From June to August, the fires released an estimated 34.7 million tons of toxic carbon pollutants into the atmosphere, and also disrupted food supply chains and the livelihoods of local people.
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