Amazon’s indigenous people hit by record forest fires in Brazil | BBC News

The Amazon has had its worst forest fires in two decades. More than 62,000 square kilometres have been burned this year already – an area of land bigger than Sri Lanka or Costa Rica.

Most fires in the Amazon are illegally started by humans, according to scientists, the Federal Police, and the government: loggers and miners looking to exploit land in the Amazon, or farmers turning it into pasture.

The world relies on the Amazon to absorb much of its carbon.



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[blanckieification]

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.”

[ES_DCSAVIOR]

This guy is literally talking about one of the most important issues to ever face humanity, so I'd appreciate it if you didn't cut him off cause your out of time apparently.

[DanH-uf]

The deforestation is also causing drought in Brazil.

[richardallan]

Pretty sure we're a done deal. But be sure to keep going for that promotion and have a couple more kids. Just keep pretending this isn't happening years ahead of schedule.

[bxlis]

Save the planet save the people save us save animals

[FranciscoPereira-xztg]

Where is Lula da Silva or Marina Silva?

[rockandpillarrange]

Holy Cow! Come on folks, one planet 🌏

[phcobb]

Stop this short-sighted, selfish madness!

[TigerBoss-wygs]

Save these people and save there land 🌎

[도연건-fq]

Hello, I am a student living in South Korea. As mentioned in the news, the Amazon is often called the 'lungs of the Earth' because it plays such a vital role in our planet’s health. This forest absorbs carbon dioxide from the air and provides a habitat for countless plant and animal species. It’s truly heartbreaking to see the Amazon facing severe threats, such as wildfires, at this moment. And it’s truly heartbreaking to see that the indigenous people are also suffering as a result of these unfortunate events. I hope that people all over the world will pay more attention to this environmental crisis.

[lalah]

You guys always cut these talks too short.

[athek]

Wake up..Sort out over population now. The root of all our problems.

[fabiovcruz]

The polite way to be rude interrupting guy

[hughjaass]

Sickening. All for raising cattle to be exported or palm oil trees, for exporting oil.

[josegegas]

It is so extremely unfair. Climate change is caused by rich people in rich countries and their luxury and wasteful lifestyles, yet it is the poor in poor countries who pay the worse consequenses.

[jonathanTwolfz]

Forest fire damage can be beneficial to forest... yet deforestation is irreversible

[krishnanandre]

It seems that humanity decided to destroy planet Earth.our greed is killing planet.

[mariobianchi]

Voi continuate a pensare che questo mondo avrà ancora un futuro, ma credo che dovrete poi ammettere l'evidenza che tutto sta per finire.

[debrajmishra]

where we are facing the fload in Odisha😢, The another part of the earth is on fire 🔥

[jay]

Australia had fires that were apparently the size of the mainland US or a large part of the mainland. I find that hard to swallow.