Nearly twothirds of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil, making it the biggest component in the region's deforestation rate Helpfully, Brazil also has the best systems for tracking deforestation, with the government and Imazon, a national civil society organization, releasing updates on a quarterly and monthly basis using MODISSections of the rainforest along the highway were demolished for large industry entrepreneurs and peasant farmers The highway brought access to parts of the Amazon that were much too deep to previously access Between 1991 and 1994, 80% of the deforestation in the Amazon was within 50km of highwaysIn 02, with public outrage about deforestation growing, INPE began posting the full dataset online, complete with deforestation maps for all of the Brazilian rainforest "That move toward transparency and accountability proved crucial because it made it possible for the science community, NGOs, and the public to engage," said Rajão Guest Post Could C
