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2019 Brazil wildfires
Location Brazil
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Date(s) January 2019 to present
Deaths 2

The 2019 Brazil wildfires is the result of at least 75,336 wildfires occurred in the country since January 2019.

As of August 20, there are fires burning in the Amazon rainforest in four Brazilian states: Amazonas, Rondônia, Mato Grosso and Pará. At least 39,194 fires have been detected in Amazonas, which is the largest state in Brazil by area, and which has the "largest standing tracts of unbroken rainforest" in the world.

A state of emergency was declared by the government of Amazonas on August 11.

The federal government and President Jair Bolsonaro claims that the data on the numbers are "fake" and refuses to help end the fires or allow other countries to help.

In August, Bolsonaro said no one was allowed to set fires in the Amazon for 60 days. When someone wants to change rainforest land into a farm or other thing, first they cut down the trees and leave them there. Then they allow the land to dry. Then they set it on fire. So many of the trees were still killed because people could cut them down and wait to burn them until later.

Wildfires were also a problem on the Cerrado grassland, a place with many rare plants and animals. 40% of its animals do not live in any other place on Earth.

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  • Queimadas e suas cicatrizes no Sul do Pará, em Altamira Agricultural fires at southern Pará, Brazil (48594171041)

    Agricultural fires in southern Pará, Brazil in August 2019.

  • 2019 amazon wildfires purus river 20190816

    INPE satellite imagery of a 110 km × 110 km (70 mi × 70 mi) area along the Purus River between Canutama and Lábrea in the state of Amazonas, taken on August 16, 2019, showing several plumes of smoke from wildfires, including areas that have been deforested

  • Smoke in Brazil 2

    Smoke arriving at the Southeast region of Brazil on 19 August 2019 (CBERS-4)

  • Carbon monoxide from Amazon fires

    Images created by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder which depict carbon monoxide caused by fires in the Amazon region of Brazil from Aug. 8-22, 2019.

  • Amazon fire satellite image

    Locations of active wildfires (marked in orange) in the Amazon as of 22 August 2019

  • Amazon River Fires from July to October 2019 (cropped)

    The EU response to the Amazon rainforest wildfires

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Incendios de la selva amazónica de 2019 para niños

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