Deforestation in the Brazilian cerrado has grown by around 25% compared to the last measurement and has reached 10,688.73 km².It is the highest number since 2015 when 11,129.06 km² of deforestation were recorded, and the second largest increase ever computed.In 2019, the first year of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government —in which forest destruction exploded in the Amazon—, the cerrado recorded 6,319 km² of deforestation.Since the beginning of the Bolsonaro government, 33,444 km² of cerrado have been cut down, according to INPE data.Devastation in the Brazilian cerrado, the most biodiverse savannah in the world and with an important role in Brazilian hydrographic basins, is not so far numerically from the deforestation registered in the Amazon in the same period — 11,568 km²."