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Fire prevention leaflets were distributed to local civilians in the region of the wildfires, with several experts and citizens requesting that Brazil's government invests more in fire prevention education. [7] In August 2024, the Bolivian government has asked Brazil for support in fighting forest fires.
The 2024 South American wildfires refer to a mega colossal series of wildfires that significantly impacted several neighboring South American countries, including Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Based on Global Wildfire Information System satellite imaging, about 346,112 wildfire hotspots damaged or destroyed 85,866,867 ...
September 16, 2024 at 11:50 AM. ... A firefighter works to put out fires earlier this month in Brazil’s Brasilia National Forest. The nonprofit Rainforest Foundation US says as many as 7.4 ...
The number of Pantanal fires so far this year has jumped tenfold from the same period last year according to Brazil's National Institute of Space Research (INPE). Fires in Brazil wetlands surge to ...
South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for the number of blazes seen in a ...
2024 South American wildfires. 2024 Brazil wildfires; 2024 Chile wildfires; 2024 Colombia wildfires; 2024 Peru wildfires; 2024 Port Hills fire, New Zealand;
Brazil’s Pantanal, the largest tropical wetland on earth, is ablaze, with fires in June breaking historical records for that month. While aerial views of the wetland show smoke rising and the ...
9 July – 2024 Brazil wildfires: Wildfires burn 760,000 hectares (1.8 million acres) of the Pantanal, destroying over 4% of Brazil's largest wetland. [ 23 ] 17 July – A massive fishkill suspected to have been caused by the dumping of industrial waste from a sugar and ethanol plant results in the deaths of between 10-20 tons of fish in the ...