Extract from The Guardian
Fires are raging across the world’s largest tropical rainforest as farmers, land-grabbers and loggers torch trees and clear land for crops or grazing.
According to Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research, the number
of fires detected by satellite in the Amazon region this month is the
highest since 2010. Bowing to international pressure and a global outcry
over the destruction of a vital resource in the fight against climate
change, president Jair Bolsonaro authorised the deployment of Brazil’s
armed forces to help combat blazes, with warplane dumping water on
burning tracts of Amazon. Critics say the large number of fires this
year has been stoked by Bolsonaro’s encouragement of farmers, loggers
and ranchers to speed up efforts to strip away forest
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