The 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires season saw a year-to-year surge in fires occurring in the Amazon rainforest and Amazon biome within Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru during that year's Amazonia
Agricultural fires in southern Pará, Brazil in August 2019.
Protest in Porto Alegre on August 24, 2019
The EU response to the Amazon rainforest wildfires
Deforestation in Brazil
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Brazil once had the highest deforestation rate in the world, and recent data still shows high rates of deforestation. Between 2001 and 2023, Brazil lost 68.9 Mha of tree cover, and in 2022, Brazilian
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A NASA satellite observation of deforestation near Rio Branco in Brazil, July 2000
Slash and burn forest removal in Brazil increased dramatically in the 1970s and 1980s.
NASA FIRMS satellite observation of deforestation in the Mato Grosso state of Brazil. The transformation from forest to farm is evident by the paler square shaped areas under development.
Slash-and-burn forest clearing along the Rio Xingu (Xingu River) in the state of Mato Grosso