{"id":1205253,"date":"2023-09-08T16:50:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=6dd67c944c852317d9587f02f692b134"},"modified":"2023-09-08T16:50:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:50:34","slug":"amazon-deforestation-in-august-plummets-to-66-percent-compared-to-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/08\/amazon-deforestation-in-august-plummets-to-66-percent-compared-to-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Deforestation in August Plummets to 66 Percent Compared to Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August was another month of relatively good news for the Amazon rainforest: The rate of deforestation has continued to decline significantly. Earlier this week, Marina Silva, Brazil&rsquo;s environment minister, announced a 66.1 percent decrease in Amazon deforestation compared to last August. That amounted to a loss of about 217 square miles, according to Reuters. These figures come during a time of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/amazon-deforestation-in-august-plummets-to-66-percent-compared-to-last-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva has set a goal of zero deforestation by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3673,3050,1006,3051,393,7495,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205261,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205253\/revisions\/1205261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}