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Amazon Forest Fires
August 25 , 2019
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- The Amazon rainforest has been burning at a rate which has alarmed environmentalists and governments worldwide.
- Amazon has lost more than 344,500 hectares of forest cover between January and June 2019.
- Brazil’s current Far-right President, Jair Bolsonaro has been blamed for encouraging wide spread tree-clearing activities for agriculture and mining.
- Though forest fires are common in Amazon between the July – October dry season, most of them are due to natural reasons.
- Amazon rainforests are important because
- It produces 20 per cent of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere.
- It influences the water cycle on a global scale not just regional scale.
- An area of rich biodiversity and home to indigenous communities whose live is now under threat.
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