Some 16,557 square kilometres of indigenous vegetation were defrosted last year, according to a satellite data-based report.
Letter from 34 environmental groups demands European Union pass aggressive laws to fight deforestation in exporting countries such as Brazil, home to 60% of Amazon rainforest.
Austria-based environmental non-profit AllRise files a complaint with ICC, accusing Brazil's leader of "fuelling the mass destruction of the Amazon with his eyes wide open and in full knowledge of the consequences."
Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil alleges in case filed with Hague-based court that the far-right president has led "an explicit, systematic and intentional anti-indigenous policy" since taking office in 2019.
The first six months of 2020 were the worst on record for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, with an area bigger than the nation of Luxembourg cleared.
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