Image taken on Aug. 17, 2019 shows a raging fire in the Amazon rainforest in the state of Tocantins, Brazil. (Dida Sampaio/AGENCIA ESTADO/Handout via Xinhua) Brazil's Amazon rainforest is on fire with no end in sight. The international community warns that it could strike a devastating ...
Amazon Watch says farmers coordinated a "Fire Day" protest to set the Amazon ablaze. "We need to show the president that we want to work and the only way is deforesting. It's to create pastures by [clearing forest], and with fire," a protest coordinator said, according to ...
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A recent Hancock Timber Resource groupstudyfound that with $300 Billion invested in managed forests across the globe, less than .05 per cent is affected by forest fire or flood. According to Ackerman, “Forestry investment plantations receive considerable checks-and-balances that care-...
There was worldwide outcry when the Notre Dame cathedral was on fire. Why is there not the same level of outrage for the fires destroying the#AmazonRainforest?pic.twitter.com/VbSda5PYAK — WWF UK (@wwf_uk)August 21, 2019 "The Club calls on international lenders and institutions to ...
Many refer to the Amazon forest as the “lungs of the planet.” Unfortunately, our lungs are on fire and 2019 has been a terrible year for the forest as a whole. And the Amazon Rainforest fires will play a role in air quality for the future. ...
“We don’t have an adequate structure to prevent, to control, and to fight the forest fires,” Barroso says. He wants to establish a forest fire protection system in the Amazon that brings together government entities, indigenous peoples, local communities, the military, large com...
Farmers and ranchers have long used fire to clear land, said Poirier, and are likely behind the unusually large number fires burning in the Amazon today. A satellite image from NASA shows the fires raging in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil in August 2019. ...
Fires in the#AmazonRainforestare continuing to burn. Here,#GOESEastzoomed in on burn scars in Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay via Day Land Cloud Fire RGB on August 22, 2019. More imagery:https://t.co/eVT7VapZcupic.twitter.com/62bSOeVbfp ...
What’s the cause – How can a wet rainforest burn? Farmers and cattle ranchers have long used fire to clear land and make it ready for use, so they are likely behind the unusually large number fires burning in the Amazon today, said Christian Poirier, the program director of non-profit...