Satellite data for the 12 months through the end of July 2013 showed that 5,891 sq km of forest were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon, an area half the size of Puerto Rico.
Despite the increase in 2013, the cleared area is still the second-lowest annual figure since the Brazilian government began tracking deforestation in 2004, when almost 30,000 sq km of forest were lost.
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Note: that number is an underestimate of sorts because deforestation leaves behind new "edge zones" of rainforest that aren't biologically prepared to be edge zones. They die as well. Fuck.