Brazilian Amazon fires surge in July

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon last month rose 28 per cent from July 2019, satellite data showed on Saturday (Aug 1), fuelling fears the world's biggest rainforest will again be devastated by fires this year.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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RIO DE JANEIRO - The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon last month rose 28 per cent from July 2019, satellite data showed on Saturday , fuelling fears the world's biggest rainforest will again be devastated by fires this year.

The figure is all the more troubling given that 2019 was already a devastating year for fires in the Amazon, triggering global outcry. "More than 1,000 fires in a single day is a 15-year record and shows the government's strategy of media-spectacle operations is not working on the ground," Greenpeace spokesman Romulo Batista said in a statement.

Fires increased 77 per cent on indigenous lands and 50 per cent on protected nature reserves from July 2019, Greenpeace said, showing how illegal activities are increasingly encroaching on those areas.Exacerbating the situation this year, experts say the resulting smoke risks causing a spike in respiratory emergencies in a region already hit hard by Covid-19.

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