“When we speak of forest loss the research refers to the measures we made when the monitoring began (2002) until the last year of monitoring. The forests were lost mainly to agriculture and cattle ranching. The data from 2016 is expected to be published this year as it is in the last editing stages,” told Mongabay Latam Uriel Murcia Garcia, chief research coordinator at SINCHI and one of the report’s authors. The data used was obtained in 2002, 2007, 20. The study covers all the Colombian Amazon which has a total area of 483,164 km2. ![]() ![]() ![]() “This report is part of the monitoring system by the SINCHI Institute. According to the report “Monitoreo de los bosques y otras coberturas de la Amazonía colombiana” done by the SINCHI Institute (Amazon scientific research institute) Colombia lost 5256km 2 of forests in the Amazon between 2002-2016.
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