Congo basinRainforest loss nearly matched the Amazon’s for the first time.

Global loss fell 15% to 7 million hectares, still short of the 2030 pledge.

Latin America’s loss fell 33%, driven by Brazil’s Amazon enforcement, the Forest Declaration Assessment found.

“Losing such a size of forest every year is a disaster,” said Cameroonian lawyer Sam Nguiffo.

Brazil’s runoff between Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro is on 25 October.

How each outlet framed it
Phys.org
credits the 2025 drop to Latin America's 33% fall in the historic hot spot, while flagging El Niño and Central African decline as reasons it won't last

Sources: Phys.org