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Brazil's Bolsonaro stated on August 28, 2019, that the countries sharing the Amazon rainforest, excluding Venezuela, will hold a summit in Colombia on September 6, 2019, to discuss the ongoing Amazon fire situation. [176] Representatives from seven countries attended: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana and Suriname.
On the morning of 15 September, a forest fire began to spread through the region of the Brasília National Park, also known as the Mineral Water Park. In the early evening, the president of ICMBio, Mauro Pires, said that the fire is criminal. According to him, the fire started in Granja do Torto and continued towards the Brasília National Park ...
The wildfires caused significant deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and also impacted several other international biomes including the Pantanal wetlands, becoming the second largest series of wildfires in the 21st century next to the 2023–24 Australian bushfire season, with the 2024 Brazil wildfires alone reaching fourth in area burned. [3]
“The Amazon is massive and maintains its own water cycle,” said Ernesto Alvarado, a research associate professor at the University of Washington’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences ...
The 2020 Brazil rainforest wildfires were a series of forest fires that were affecting Brazil, with 44,013 outbreaks of fires registered between January and August in the Amazonas and Pantanal. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Within the Amazon, 6,315 outbreaks of fire were detected in the same period. [ 4 ]
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]
The study attributed the rise in a large part to an increase in deforestation, researcher and leader of the study Luciana Gatti said. Since taking office in January, President Luiz Inacio Lula da ...
Takumã Kuikuro, a filmmaker and curator from the Indigenous territory in Brazil’s Amazon basin, calls the Indigenous community “guardians of the forest.” “We are the main victims of ...