Courtesy of Amazon Conservation Association/Planet Labs Christian Braga/Greenpeace Satellite imagery shows fires burning in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso in August 2021. A wildfire burns through a degraded forest in Porto Velho, Rondônia state, Brazil, in July 2021. A populist and ally of former President Donald Trump, Bolsonaro has dismantled a number of environmental protections since taking office in 2019. While President Jair Bolsonaro banned unauthorized outdoor fires and deployed troops to the Amazon earlier this year, experts say these efforts haven’t worked in the past - and question the president’s commitment to ending rampant forest loss. Experts say this year is on track to be as bad as 2020, when fires razed more than 19 million acres of the world’s largest tropical forest.Ĭonservation advocates aren’t counting on help from the government of Brazil, which is home to some 60 percent of the Amazon.
It’s not looking good so far: More than 1,000 large fires have burned across the rainforest since January.
The following year proved to be even worse. In the summer of 2019, the Amazon captured the world’s attention when large chunks of the iconic rainforest went up in flames and smoke darkened the afternoon sky above São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city.
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