Deforestation

This is a comparison of forest coverage and farming in the Amazon. Most of the farming is reportedly cattle. The gap between the red and green bars doesn't represent any data, but highlights how closely deforestation tracks with farming. To reproduce the data, follow the link below to Project MapBiomas and (assuming their site never changes for the rest of time) select the following:

• Type → Coverage
• Territories → AMAZONIA (Biome)
• Classes → 1 Forest, 3 Farming

References:

1. "Project MapBiomas - Collection v.4.0 of Brazilian Land Cover & Use Map Series, accessed on November 2, 2019 through the link: http://plataforma.mapbiomas.org/stats."
2. "MapBiomas Project - is a multi-institutional initiative to generate annual land cover and use maps using automatic classification processes applied to satellite images. The complete description of the project can be found at http://mapbiomas.org."