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The number of forest fires in Brazil reached a new ten-year high in 2020. In the past year, there were over 222,000 forest fires, as the Brazilian space agency Inpe announced after evaluating satellite images.
The number of forest fires in Brazil reached a new ten-year high in 2020. In the past year, there were over 222,000 forest fires, as the Brazilian space agency Inpe announced after evaluating satellite images.
This corresponds to an increase of 12.7 percent compared to the previous year. The agency counted more than 103,000 fires in the Amazon rainforest, an increase of 16 percent from 2019. Under President Jair Bolsonaro,
who has been in office since January 2019 and is considered a notorious climate skeptic, the destruction of the rainforest in Brazil has increased dramatically. Environmental requirements were weakened under Bolsonaro.
Again and again he opened protected areas for agriculture and mining. Environmentalists also accuse Bolsonaro of favoring illegal clearing.
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