Record Amazon fires, intensified by forest degradation, burn indigenous lands

Mongabay
Jan 18, 2018, 11:58 am114 pts
An area nearly double the size of San Francisco, 24,000 hectares (59,305), lost tree cover within the Kayapó Indigenous Territory from October to December 2017 due to fires, while the nearby Xikrin Indigenous Territory lost roughly 10,000 hectares (24,710 acres) over the same period. Photo courtesy of IBAMA…

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