In the last three years, amazon has lost nearly 30 thousand square kilometers of trees. The pace of deforestation at the amazons jumped by 22 % in one year. A large part of this problem can be aced back to the 19 seventies when Brazil was under military dictatorship. As much as 95 % still remain illegal in the country. And it's destroying the amazon as we know it, including the natural ecosystem it sustains.