O Portal de Notcias da Globo Thirteen days after the official launch of the website Globo
Amazônia and the interactive map Amazônia.vc in the Fantástico
television show, on September 7, the application registered 13
million protests against fires and deforestation in the Amazon.
The protests came from more than 230,000 users who
installed Amazonia.vc, available as an Orkut application, which
enables users to follow the devastation of the forest in real
time.
The interactive map allows an active participation
in the fight against the destruction of the forest. The users
can record their protests, which will then be used by the news
team of the Globo Amazônia website as material in the production
of journalistic features.
Rank of Complaints
Since the launch of the application, most of the protests were
made against deforestation areas in the northern state of Pará.
There were posted 5,784,305 protests. Pará was followed by Mato
Grosso, with 3,037,099, and Rondônia, with 1.429.199 protests.
The position of the Brazilian states in the
ranking of protests is proportional to the intensity of
destruction of the forest in each of them. In July, most of the
deforestation was located in Pará, according to the latest
survey on devastation presented by Brazilian space agency INPE.
In this northern state, 236 square kilometers were
deforested in just one month. Mato Grosso came in second with 33
square kilometers of new cleared areas, followed by Amazonas,
where 24 square kilometers of destruction were detected by the satellites.
