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5 wrz 2022 · Learn how the Amazon rainforest is being burned and deforested for profit by illegal land grabbers emboldened by Bolsonaro's government. Find out how fires, deforestation and climate change are linked and what we can do to protect the world's largest intact forest.
The increased rates of fire counts in 2019 led to international concern about the fate of the Amazon rainforest, which is the world's largest terrestrial carbon dioxide sink and plays a significant role in mitigating global warming.
2024 Marks the Worst Year for Amazon Fires since 2005. The Brazilian Amazon registered a 104% increase in fire hotspots during the same eight-month period (January to August) compared to 2023, worsening an already critical situation.
1 sie 2024 · In the first seven months of 2024, the Brazilian Amazon recorded the highest number of fires in the last 20 years. Although deforestation in the region decreased by 50% in 2023 compared to 2022, burned areas increased by 36%.
19 wrz 2024 · Analyzing data from 2001-2023, fires in the Amazon region are now burning at least twice as much forest today as they did 20 years ago. A very strong El Niño event in 2015-2016 caused a large spike in fire-related loss in the Amazon.
22 lut 2024 · Usually accidental, forest fires in Amazonia are caused by uncontrolled small fires such as crop burning, livestock management (to clear pasture) or clear-cutting — this, which is almost always illegal, resulting from razing trees for new pastureland, monoculture farming or real estate speculation.
9 mar 2024 · Hundreds of square miles of the rainforest have burned as countries in the region battle a record number of fires fueled by extreme weather. A brush fire burning in February on a farm in...
