G7 pledges millions to fight Amazon fires

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Nearly 80,000 forest fires have been detected in Brazil since the beginning of the year – just over half of them in the massive Amazon basin

FOREST FIRES. Brazilian farmer Helio Lombardo Do Santos and a dog walk through a burnt area of the Amazon rainforest, near Porto Velho, Rondonia state, Brazil, on August 26, 2019. Photo by Carl de Souza/AFP to send firefighting planes to tackle the blazes engulfing parts of the Amazon, the presidents of France and Chile said Monday, August 26.

G7 leaders gathered in Biarritz held talks on the many environmental challenges facing planet Earth, with a focus on the record number ofMacron has threatened to block a huge new trade deal between the EU and Latin America unless Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a climate change skeptic, takes serious steps to protect the fast-shrinking forest from logging and mining.

Brazil would have to agree to any reforestation plan, as would indigenous communities living in the world's biggest rainforest.

 

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