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Detailed explanation-1: -Brazil contains the largest portion - just over 1.5 million square miles of the Amazon - where the majority of deforestation took place in 2021.

Detailed explanation-2: -Industrial agriculture is the biggest driver of deforestation in the world. In Brazil, cattle ranchers and land-grabbers set the Amazon on fire to illegally clear land and expand their destructive business.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Amazon is a vast biome that spans eight rapidly developing countries-Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname-and French Guiana, an overseas territory of France.

Detailed explanation-4: -Despite 11% drop in 2022, Amazon deforestation rate has soared under Bolsonaro. An area equivalent to the size of Qatar was cleared in the Brazilian Amazon between Aug. 1, 2021, and July 31, 2022, according to data from the country’s National Space Research Institute (INPE).