BRAZIL’S Amazon rainforest is being ravaged by devastating fires, with over 1,663 blazes having ignited between Thursday and Friday alone.
The Amazon rainforest is home to about three million species of plants and animals and one million indigenous people and fires continue to destroy much of the beloved forest. Official figures from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research state over 78,000 forest fires occurred in Brazil this year, a surge of 84 percent compared with the same period in 2018. The infernos continue to destroy much of the Amazon’s 5.
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