Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon declines to its lowest level since 2019, according to monitoring data cited by multiple outlets. The MapBiomas network reports that Brazil loses 985,000 hectares of native vegetation in the Amazon in 2025, a 20.6% drop compared with 2024. RFI adds that the reduction brings deforestation to the lowest point in six years, attributing part of the decline to tougher environmental enforcement.
Even with the decrease, forest loss continues. RFI notes that trees are still being felled at a sustained rate in the world’s largest rainforest, using a “five trees every second” framing to describe ongoing activity. The two reports agree on the overall direction of change—less deforestation than the previous year and the lowest levels since 2019—while also reflecting that deforestation has not stopped.
