File:Deforestation in Mexico.jpg

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This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 30 December 2020, shows the northern part of the “Maya Forest front”, in the northern part of the State of Yucatán, in Mexico, one of the fronts identified by WWF.

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English: Forests are essential to our lives. After oceans, forests are the largest storehouses of carbon. They are critical in the fight against the climate crisis. A new study by the World Wildlife Fund, has identified 24 "deforestation fronts": they are hot spots where global deforestation has been clustered, causing 43 million hectares of forests loss between 2004 and 2017 (i.e. nearly the size of California or twice the size of UK). This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 30 December 2020, shows the northern part of the “Maya Forest front”, in the northern part of the State of Yucatán, in Mexico, one of the fronts identified by WWF. The high revisit frequency of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites supports the attempts to mitigate deforestation by providing greater opportunities to acquire cloud-free optical data.
Date Taken on 30 December 2020
Source Deforestation in Mexico
Author European Union , Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

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Attribution: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020

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