In the Amazon for ten days of August recorded the highest number of fires over the past ten years, announced on 13 August the international conservation organization Greenpeace, citing the Brazilian national Institute for space research.
According to Greenpeace, the satellite images you can see 10 136 fires. More was only in 2010, then, environmentalists counted 11 280 lesions.
for more dry weather than usual, we can expect a significant number of fires in the jungle, comparable to August 2019, says Greenpeace. The organization also notes that deforestation in the Amazon comes with the tacit support of the Brazilian authorities.
the Problem is compounded by predatory logging. According to the Institute of man and environment of Amazonia (Imazon), over the past year, Amazon lost 6 536 square kilometers of natural forests, which is 29 percent more than the year before. Only in July were cut 1 147 square kilometers. Most involve the removal of forest in the state of pará, where about 70 percent of logging is illegal there, reports Imazon.
