📋 Tender Overview
Deforestation alerts in the Legal Amazon reached the smallest for February. According to data from the Deter Monitoring System, from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), 80.95 km2 of deforested areas in 2025 were recorded, a 64.26% drop over the same period last year, when 226.51 km2 of deforestation were detected. The worst year was 2023, when there was a warning of deforestation to an area of 321.97 km2 in February. It was also observed a drop in the Cerrado in February this year, when 494.05 km2 were identified on alert of deforestation. In the same period of the last year, 655.51 km2 were deforested, the highest value of the historical series started in 2019.
The reduction compared to 2024 is 24.63%. The real -time deforestation detection system (deter) was developed to guide defective and deforestation and forest degradation control actions through daily alerts. The data of a single month, either reduction or increase, cannot be considered indicative of a tendency towards the deforestation rate in the year, measured by another INPE system, the project of monitoring deforestation in the Legal Satellite Amazon (Prodes).
Prodes is based on August 1, a given year until July 31 of the following year. Detects deforestation by shallow cut and progressive degradation, such as trees completely destroyed by fire. Published annually since 1988, the Prodes rate is the result of comparing dry period satellite images in the Amazon in two consecutive years. In 2024, Prodes detected about 46% reduction in the Amazon deforestation pace compared to 2022. Last year, from August 2023 to July 2024, the decrease was 30.63% over the previous period. It is the highest percentage reduction in 15 years. In the cerrado, the decline measured by the Prodes was 25.7% from August 2023 to July 2024 compared to August 2022 to July 2023, which represents the first fall in five years in the federal government in combating deforestation of January 2023, the federal government works to reduce deforestation in Brazil, reaffirming the countrys commitment to the countrys commitment To zero it by 2030. Action Plans for Deforestation Prevention and Control in the Legal Amazon (PPCDam) and Cerrado (PPCerrado) were relaunched in June and November 2023, respectively. Plans for the Pantanal (PPPantanal) and Caatinga (PPCaatinga) were released in December 2024. The Federal Government works in the preparation of plans for the Atlantic Forest and Pampa. PPCDam is based on four axes: sustainable productive activities; Environmental monitoring and control; Land and territorial planning and normative and economic instruments.
The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) also established a list of 81 priority municipalities in the biome for prevention, control and reduction of deforestation and forest degradation. The Union with Municipalities program was also created, which provides investments of R 785 million to promote sustainable development and combat deforestation and forest fires in priority municipalities. In addition, the program provides support for these municipalities in land and environmental regularization actions and technical assistance and rural extension in unpaid federal public plots, as well as productive recovery measures through agroforestry systems.
