Fire season intensifies in the Brazilian Amazon, feeding off deforestation

Mongabay
Jul 1, 2021, 9:39 am159 pts
So far this year, 24 major fires have burned in the Brazilian Amazon, covering an area of 7,167 hectares (17,710 acres). All of the fires were set on land previously deforested in 2020 until this week, when the first major blaze was set on land cleared in 2021, according to a report by the Amazon Conservation…

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