CNN  —  Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 22.3 percent in the 12 months through July, government data showed Thursday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made progress on a pledge to rein in the destruction that happened under his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. Some 9,000 square kilometers (3,475 square miles) of Amazon jungle were …

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