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(These fires are mostly started by locals wanting to clear land to raise cattle to supply China, the US, and the EU with beef.)
3. 60% of Brazil is covered by smoke
4. In 2024 alone, 160,000 fires were registered in Brazil.
5. The Amazon river reached its lowest level since records began in 1902.
6. More than 2 million Indigenous people depend on the river for food and transportation, and the drought left entire communities stranded without fuel, food, and drinking water.
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7. Fires consume 9% of the world's LARGEST Wetland area, the Pantanal, in South America.
8. Bolivia declared a national emergency due to raging forest fires the country's defense ministry announced last Saturday.
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he continued, the humid Amazon is never meant to burn. He says that rainforest flora and fauna are being wiped out at unprecedented rates.
"The fires in California or the fires in Europe, those aren't the same as the fires in South America. There's an enormous difference in the loss of biodiversity." said Guillermo Villalobos, a political scientist focusing on climate science at Bolivian nonprofit Fundación Solon.
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"Forests like the Amazon are historically tropical forests, meaning they've never burned, they've never coexisted with the fire. This is terribly tragic for the ecosystem and the world. The Amazon is in its worst state of the last 50 years."
Here are some facts:
1. The Amazon rainforest historically, has never burned-it's too wet and humid.
2. So far this year, an area the size of Italy has burned in Brazil.
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#Repost (@racingextinction ) South America is on fire, experiencing drought conditions that haven't been seen since 1902, and the Amazon River has reached levels that are sending shockwaves across the globe.
"The fires are out of control" said Efrain Tinta Guachalla, a socio-territorial investigator at Fundación Tierra, a Bolivian NGO dedicated to sustainable rural development.
While occasional wildfires in Europe and the American West are normal considering the climate,
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