The line chart below shows the rates of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon for the years 2008 to 2017 and the pie chart below shows the causes for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon for the same years. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and male comparisons where relevant.

The line graph depicts how many areas were deforested in the Amazon in Brazil from 2008 to 2017 and the pie chart illustrates the reasons for the

deforestation

in the same years period.

Overall

, the number of

deforestation

areas had a gradual downward trend and the reason for deforesting was varied. In terms of the rates of

deforestation

in the Brazilian Amazon, to start with the peak of the highest number of areas at 34.000km2 in 2008 and steadily decreased to 17.000km2 in 2012 with fluctuations.

However

, the proportion of

deforestation

suddenly spiked up to 30.000km2 in 2013,

whereas

the Brazilian Amazon faced a continuous decline in rates of

deforestation

until the end of the year period with a small rise at 6.000km2 in 2017.

According to

the data given in the pie graph, the main cause of

deforestation

was agriculture both large and small scales, which accounted for more than half of the total, with small-holder agriculture at 35% and large-scale agriculture at 20%.

Following

this

, a quarter of the

deforestation

reason made up for cow’s ranch, the forest woods were used for logging with 15%, and an unknown other reason occupied 5%.