"(...) deforestation rose in 2015 for the first time in nearly a decade, to nearly two million acres from August 2015 to July 2016. That is a jump from about 1.5 million acres a year earlier and just over 1.2 million acres the year before that (...)"

...so really it did rise in 2014, from 1.2 to 1.5 so the first statement is false, isn't it?