#prodes — Public Fediverse posts
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#Brazil’s 🇧🇷 National Institute for #SpaceResearch is rapidly losing funding 💵, brains 🧠 - and hope. In the 📆 1970s, it became the first #SpaceAgency in any country to monitor forests 🌳 using #satellite 🛰️ data. Data from #PRODES and #DETER helped Brazil create and enforce policies that were key to reducing annual #deforestation 🪓 in the #Amazon by 82% between 📆 2004 and 2014.
The decline 📉 accelerated after #Bolsonaro took office, despite his campaign promises to prioritize #science. His government cut MCTI’s overall budget by 35% in the first 3 years of his administration. #INPE’s annual budget plunged by 63% from 2010. The last time INPE was allowed to add permanent staff 👨🔬 was in 📆 2012. https://www.science.org/content/article/brazil-s-space-research-institute-source-national-pride-struggling-survival