Brazil’s Amazon dry season just ended with a staggering 846% increase in burned forest area compared to the year before.
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FILE - A boat navigates the Negro River amid smoke from wildfires in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Aug. 27, 2024. – Wildfires in Brazil have swept through an area the size of Switzerland, a level of destruction that will take decades to recover, if it ever does, according to a new satellite assessment.“The data is exceptionally alarming, it's a very abrupt surge,” Ane Alencar, science director at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, a Brazilian nonprofit, told The Associated Press.
This surge in fire comes one year before the Amazon city of Belém will host the annual U.N. climate conference, COP30. The level of destruction is raising suspicions among Brazilian officials and experts that criminals are using climate change to their advantage. “The drought played a major role in fueling the spread, but fire has also been weaponized,” Alencar said.
Then came fire. In September, wildfires surged through the region, doubling the acreage that had burned so far this year. With more than two months still remaining in 2024, it's already the largest area burned since the government began using its current methodology a decade ago. The unprecedented rise in fire has prompted Brazil's government to consider mandating that all burned areas be reforested — a deterrent for landgrabbers who hope to convert public forest into their own private pasture.
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