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{"found_url":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-09-global-leaders-amazon-rainforest.html","crawl_time":1773227646,"first_indexed_time":1569147980,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"org,phys!\/news\/2019-09-global-leaders-amazon-rainforest.html s443","src_root_hash":"5200908481159124812","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"As global leaders meet, the Amazon rainforest burns","meta_descriptions":["The fires that burned through the Amazon rainforest last month sparked international outcry and offers of help, but as world leaders meet in New York, the planet's largest rainforest remains engulfed in flames."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Firefighters in the Brazilian Amazon basin state of Mato Grosso battle a forest blaze in the municipality of Sorriso\nThe fires that burned through the Amazon rainforest last month sparked international outcry and offers of help, but as world leaders meet in New York, the planet's largest rainforest remains engulfed in flames.\nThe latest satellite data from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) shows 131,600 fires burning since January within the country, where 60 percent of the Amazon lies.\nThe fires, which are mostly caused by humans with the goal of clearing land for farming and cattle ranching, are having a grievous effect on the forest: the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has nearly doubled since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro came to power on January 1, with the equivalent of 110 football fields of land being cleared every hour.\n\"It's sad to see Brazilians attacking me for fires in the Amazon, as if they hadn't always existed,\" Bolsonaro wrote on Facebook Thursday.\nWe \"remain below the average of the last 15 years. But I'm accused of being a Nero, who sets fires everywhere.\"\nYet fires are at a seven-year high, according to INPE data, and despite a slight drop at the start of the month, the number of active fires recorded in Brazil from the start of the year to September 19 was up 56 percent over the same period in 2018. Nearly half of the blazes are in the Amazon.\nSmokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, in Brazilian the Amazon basin state of Para, in late August 2019\nBolsonaro is a climate change skeptic, but last month he sent soldiers to help put out fires in the Amazon region after Brazil came under criticism at the G7 summit, with the host French President Emmanuel Macron among the most outspoken detractors.\nUnder that deployment, which was renewed Friday for another month, nearly 7,000 soldiers and 16 aircraft are fighting both the flames and \"deforestation and illegal mining,\" Brazil's defense ministry said.\n'I'm going to get hit'\nMarcio Astrini, a Greenpeace official in Brazil, said the deployment is making little difference.\n\"We did a lot of fly-overs. We did not see anything happening on the ground, apart from the deforestation that is progressing. It's tragic,\" he told AFP.\nExperts sent by the United States, logistical equipment from Japan, and four aircraft from Chile are all fighting the blazes, while firefighters sent from Israel have departed, the\ndefense ministry\nsaid.\nA forest wildfire spreads onto a farm in the municipality of Nova Santa Helena, in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, in the southern Amazon basin region\nBolsonaro however has blanched at other international offers to help put out the fires, rejecting $20 million from the G7 and accusing members France and Germany of \"buying\" Brazil's sovereignty.\nOn Monday, Macron will launch a \"call for mobilization\" on the Amazon together with his counterparts Sebastian Pinera of Chile and Ivan Duque of Colombia during a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.\nBrazil won't attend the meeting, but Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, also a climate change skeptic, will appear at the UN's climate summit on Monday, before traveling to Europe.\nOn Tuesday, Bolsonaro will make the opening speech at the UN General Assembly, in which he is expected to focus on the Amazon.\n\"I am preparing a rather objective speech, unlike my predecessor,\" he wrote on Facebook, adding, \"I'm going to get hit, you can be sure. The media always finds something to complain about.\"\nLoss of forest cover and Co2 emissions in countries that share the Amazon river basin between 2001 and 2018\nNo end in sight\nEnvironmental groups have little faith that Bolsonaro will change tack.\nThe government \"wants to show that it is doing the best for the forest. In fact, it is doing its utmost for deforestation,\" said Greenpeace's Astrini.\n\"Brazil is running a campaign to show that it is taking care of the Amazon. It's a lie,\" he said.\nAnd there's little to suggest that the fires are abating.\nBetween September 18 and 19, the number of forest fires in Rondonia state jumped to 242 from 12 just the day before, an increase of 1,915 percent, according to the INPE.\nSmoke billows from a burning tree trunk near Porto Velho, in the western-central Brazilian Amazon basin state of Rondonia\nFears are also rising over the number of blazes in the Cerrado savanna, which account for a third of all the fires in Brazil.\nAnd on Friday the World Wide Fund for Nature warned of an \"emergency situation in the biome\" of the Pantanal wetland.\nFires have risen 351 percent since January in the Pantanal region, some 90 percent of which were set illegally.\n© 2019 AFP\nCitation\n:\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAs global leaders meet, the Amazon rainforest burns (2019, September 22)\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tretrieved 11 March 2026\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfrom https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-09-global-leaders-amazon-rainforest.html\nThis document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t part may be reproduced without the written permission. 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[Environment](https:\/\/phys.org\/earth-news\/environment\/)\n***\nSeptember 22, 2019\n\n# As global leaders meet, the Amazon rainforest burns\nby Pascale Trouillaud\n\n[Add as preferred source](https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https%3A%2F%2Fphys.org%2F)\n***\n\n![Firefighters in the Brazilian Amazon basin state of Mato Grosso battle a forest blaze in the municipality of Sorriso](https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2019\/9-firefighters.jpg)\n\nFirefighters in the Brazilian Amazon basin state of Mato Grosso battle a forest blaze in the municipality of Sorriso\n\nThe fires that burned through the Amazon rainforest last month sparked international outcry and offers of help, but as world leaders meet in New York, the planet's largest rainforest remains engulfed in flames.\n\nThe latest satellite data from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) shows 131,600 fires burning since January within the country, where 60 percent of the Amazon lies.\n\nThe fires, which are mostly caused by humans with the goal of clearing land for farming and cattle ranching, are having a grievous effect on the forest: the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has nearly doubled since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro came to power on January 1, with the equivalent of 110 football fields of land being cleared every hour.\n\n\"It's sad to see Brazilians attacking me for fires in the Amazon, as if they hadn't always existed,\" Bolsonaro wrote on Facebook Thursday.\n\nWe \"remain below the average of the last 15 years. But I'm accused of being a Nero, who sets fires everywhere.\"\n\nYet fires are at a seven-year high, according to INPE data, and despite a slight drop at the start of the month, the number of active fires recorded in Brazil from the start of the year to September 19 was up 56 percent over the same period in 2018. Nearly half of the blazes are in the Amazon.\n\n![Smokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, in Brazilian the Amazon basin state of Para, in late August 2019](https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2019\/1-smokesrisesf.jpg)\n\nSmokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, in Brazilian the Amazon basin state of Para, in late August 2019\n\nBolsonaro is a climate change skeptic, but last month he sent soldiers to help put out fires in the Amazon region after Brazil came under criticism at the G7 summit, with the host French President Emmanuel Macron among the most outspoken detractors.\n\nUnder that deployment, which was renewed Friday for another month, nearly 7,000 soldiers and 16 aircraft are fighting both the flames and \"deforestation and illegal mining,\" Brazil's defense ministry said.\n\n## 'I'm going to get hit'\nMarcio Astrini, a Greenpeace official in Brazil, said the deployment is making little difference.\n\n\"We did a lot of fly-overs. We did not see anything happening on the ground, apart from the deforestation that is progressing. It's tragic,\" he told AFP.\n\nExperts sent by the United States, logistical equipment from Japan, and four aircraft from Chile are all fighting the blazes, while firefighters sent from Israel have departed, the [defense ministry](https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/defense+ministry\/) said.\n\n![A forest wildfire spreads onto a farm in the municipality of Nova Santa Helena, in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, in the southern A](https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2019\/aforestwildf.jpg)\n\nA forest wildfire spreads onto a farm in the municipality of Nova Santa Helena, in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, in the southern Amazon basin region\n\nBolsonaro however has blanched at other international offers to help put out the fires, rejecting \\$20 million from the G7 and accusing members France and Germany of \"buying\" Brazil's sovereignty.\n\nOn Monday, Macron will launch a \"call for mobilization\" on the Amazon together with his counterparts Sebastian Pinera of Chile and Ivan Duque of Colombia during a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.\n\nBrazil won't attend the meeting, but Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, also a climate change skeptic, will appear at the UN's climate summit on Monday, before traveling to Europe.\n\nOn Tuesday, Bolsonaro will make the opening speech at the UN General Assembly, in which he is expected to focus on the Amazon.\n\n\"I am preparing a rather objective speech, unlike my predecessor,\" he wrote on Facebook, adding, \"I'm going to get hit, you can be sure. The media always finds something to complain about.\"\n\n![Loss of forest cover and Co2 emissions in countries that share the Amazon river basin between 2001 and 2018](https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2019\/lossofforest.jpg)\n\nLoss of forest cover and Co2 emissions in countries that share the Amazon river basin between 2001 and 2018\n\nDiscover the latest in science, tech, and space with over **100,000 subscribers** who rely on Phys.org for daily insights. Sign up for our [free newsletter](https:\/\/sciencex.com\/help\/newsletter\/) and get updates on breakthroughs, innovations, and research that matter—**daily or weekly**.\n\n## No end in sight\nEnvironmental groups have little faith that Bolsonaro will change tack.\n\nThe government \"wants to show that it is doing the best for the forest. In fact, it is doing its utmost for deforestation,\" said Greenpeace's Astrini.\n\n\"Brazil is running a campaign to show that it is taking care of the Amazon. It's a lie,\" he said.\n\nAnd there's little to suggest that the fires are abating.\n\nBetween September 18 and 19, the number of forest fires in Rondonia state jumped to 242 from 12 just the day before, an increase of 1,915 percent, according to the INPE.\n\n![Smoke billows from a burning tree trunk near Porto Velho, in the Brazilian Amazon basin state of Rondonia](https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2019\/1-smokebillows.jpg)\n\nSmoke billows from a burning tree trunk near Porto Velho, in the western-central Brazilian Amazon basin state of Rondonia\n\nFears are also rising over the number of blazes in the Cerrado savanna, which account for a third of all the fires in Brazil.\n\nAnd on Friday the World Wide Fund for Nature warned of an \"emergency situation in the biome\" of the Pantanal wetland.\n\nFires have risen 351 percent since January in the Pantanal region, some 90 percent of which were set illegally.\n\n© 2019 AFP\n\n**Citation**: As global leaders meet, the Amazon rainforest burns (2019, September 22) retrieved 11 March 2026 from https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-09-global-leaders-amazon-rainforest.html\n\nThis document is subject to copyright. 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But I'm accused of being a Nero, who sets fires everywhere.\"\n\nYet fires are at a seven-year high, according to INPE data, and despite a slight drop at the start of the month, the number of active fires recorded in Brazil from the start of the year to September 19 was up 56 percent over the same period in 2018. Nearly half of the blazes are in the Amazon.\n\n![Smokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, in Brazilian the Amazon basin state of Para, in late August 2019](https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2019\/1-smokesrisesf.jpg)\n\nSmokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, in Brazilian the Amazon basin state of Para, in late August 2019\n\nBolsonaro is a climate change skeptic, but last month he sent soldiers to help put out fires in the Amazon region after Brazil came under criticism at the G7 summit, with the host French President Emmanuel Macron among the most outspoken detractors.\n\nUnder that deployment, which was renewed Friday for another month, nearly 7,000 soldiers and 16 aircraft are fighting both the flames and \"deforestation and illegal mining,\" Brazil's defense ministry said.\n\n## 'I'm going to get hit'\nMarcio Astrini, a Greenpeace official in Brazil, said the deployment is making little difference.\n\n\"We did a lot of fly-overs. We did not see anything happening on the ground, apart from the deforestation that is progressing. It's tragic,\" he told AFP.\n\nExperts sent by the United States, logistical equipment from Japan, and four aircraft from Chile are all fighting the blazes, while firefighters sent from Israel have departed, the [defense ministry](https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/defense+ministry\/) said.\n\n![A forest wildfire spreads onto a farm in the municipality of Nova Santa Helena, in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, in the southern A](https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2019\/aforestwildf.jpg)\n\nA forest wildfire spreads onto a farm in the municipality of Nova Santa Helena, in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, in the southern Amazon basin region\n\nBolsonaro however has blanched at other international offers to help put out the fires, rejecting \\$20 million from the G7 and accusing members France and Germany of \"buying\" Brazil's sovereignty.\n\nOn Monday, Macron will launch a \"call for mobilization\" on the Amazon together with his counterparts Sebastian Pinera of Chile and Ivan Duque of Colombia during a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.\n\nBrazil won't attend the meeting, but Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, also a climate change skeptic, will appear at the UN's climate summit on Monday, before traveling to Europe.\n\nOn Tuesday, Bolsonaro will make the opening speech at the UN General Assembly, in which he is expected to focus on the Amazon.\n\n\"I am preparing a rather objective speech, unlike my predecessor,\" he wrote on Facebook, adding, \"I'm going to get hit, you can be sure. The media always finds something to complain about.\"\n\n![Loss of forest cover and Co2 emissions in countries that share the Amazon river basin between 2001 and 2018](https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2019\/lossofforest.jpg)\n\nLoss of forest cover and Co2 emissions in countries that share the Amazon river basin between 2001 and 2018\n## No end in sight\nEnvironmental groups have little faith that Bolsonaro will change tack.\n\nThe government \"wants to show that it is doing the best for the forest. In fact, it is doing its utmost for deforestation,\" said Greenpeace's Astrini.\n\n\"Brazil is running a campaign to show that it is taking care of the Amazon. It's a lie,\" he said.\n\nAnd there's little to suggest that the fires are abating.\n\nBetween September 18 and 19, the number of forest fires in Rondonia state jumped to 242 from 12 just the day before, an increase of 1,915 percent, according to the INPE.\n\n![Smoke billows from a burning tree trunk near Porto Velho, in the Brazilian Amazon basin state of Rondonia](https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2019\/1-smokebillows.jpg)\n\nSmoke billows from a burning tree trunk near Porto Velho, in the western-central Brazilian Amazon basin state of Rondonia\n\nFears are also rising over the number of blazes in the Cerrado savanna, which account for a third of all the fires in Brazil.\n\nAnd on Friday the World Wide Fund for Nature warned of an \"emergency situation in the biome\" of the Pantanal wetland.\n\nFires have risen 351 percent since January in the Pantanal region, some 90 percent of which were set illegally.\n\n© 2019 AFP\n\n**Citation**: As global leaders meet, the Amazon rainforest burns (2019, September 22) retrieved 11 March 2026 from https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-09-global-leaders-amazon-rainforest.html\n\nThis document is subject to copyright. 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Boilerpipe Text	Firefighters in the Brazilian Amazon basin state of Mato Grosso battle a forest blaze in the municipality of Sorriso The fires that burned through the Amazon rainforest last month sparked international outcry and offers of help, but as world leaders meet in New York, the planet's largest rainforest remains engulfed in flames. The latest satellite data from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) shows 131,600 fires burning since January within the country, where 60 percent of the Amazon lies. The fires, which are mostly caused by humans with the goal of clearing land for farming and cattle ranching, are having a grievous effect on the forest: the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has nearly doubled since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro came to power on January 1, with the equivalent of 110 football fields of land being cleared every hour. "It's sad to see Brazilians attacking me for fires in the Amazon, as if they hadn't always existed," Bolsonaro wrote on Facebook Thursday. We "remain below the average of the last 15 years. But I'm accused of being a Nero, who sets fires everywhere." Yet fires are at a seven-year high, according to INPE data, and despite a slight drop at the start of the month, the number of active fires recorded in Brazil from the start of the year to September 19 was up 56 percent over the same period in 2018. Nearly half of the blazes are in the Amazon. Smokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, in Brazilian the Amazon basin state of Para, in late August 2019 Bolsonaro is a climate change skeptic, but last month he sent soldiers to help put out fires in the Amazon region after Brazil came under criticism at the G7 summit, with the host French President Emmanuel Macron among the most outspoken detractors. Under that deployment, which was renewed Friday for another month, nearly 7,000 soldiers and 16 aircraft are fighting both the flames and "deforestation and illegal mining," Brazil's defense ministry said. 'I'm going to get hit' Marcio Astrini, a Greenpeace official in Brazil, said the deployment is making little difference. "We did a lot of fly-overs. We did not see anything happening on the ground, apart from the deforestation that is progressing. It's tragic," he told AFP. Experts sent by the United States, logistical equipment from Japan, and four aircraft from Chile are all fighting the blazes, while firefighters sent from Israel have departed, the defense ministry said. A forest wildfire spreads onto a farm in the municipality of Nova Santa Helena, in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, in the southern Amazon basin region Bolsonaro however has blanched at other international offers to help put out the fires, rejecting $20 million from the G7 and accusing members France and Germany of "buying" Brazil's sovereignty. On Monday, Macron will launch a "call for mobilization" on the Amazon together with his counterparts Sebastian Pinera of Chile and Ivan Duque of Colombia during a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Brazil won't attend the meeting, but Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, also a climate change skeptic, will appear at the UN's climate summit on Monday, before traveling to Europe. On Tuesday, Bolsonaro will make the opening speech at the UN General Assembly, in which he is expected to focus on the Amazon. "I am preparing a rather objective speech, unlike my predecessor," he wrote on Facebook, adding, "I'm going to get hit, you can be sure. The media always finds something to complain about." Loss of forest cover and Co2 emissions in countries that share the Amazon river basin between 2001 and 2018 No end in sight Environmental groups have little faith that Bolsonaro will change tack. The government "wants to show that it is doing the best for the forest. In fact, it is doing its utmost for deforestation," said Greenpeace's Astrini. "Brazil is running a campaign to show that it is taking care of the Amazon. It's a lie," he said. And there's little to suggest that the fires are abating. Between September 18 and 19, the number of forest fires in Rondonia state jumped to 242 from 12 just the day before, an increase of 1,915 percent, according to the INPE. Smoke billows from a burning tree trunk near Porto Velho, in the western-central Brazilian Amazon basin state of Rondonia Fears are also rising over the number of blazes in the Cerrado savanna, which account for a third of all the fires in Brazil. And on Friday the World Wide Fund for Nature warned of an "emergency situation in the biome" of the Pantanal wetland. Fires have risen 351 percent since January in the Pantanal region, some 90 percent of which were set illegally. © 2019 AFP Citation : As global leaders meet, the Amazon rainforest burns (2019, September 22) retrieved 11 March 2026 from https://phys.org/news/2019-09-global-leaders-amazon-rainforest.html This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only.
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The latest satellite data from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) shows 131,600 fires burning since January within the country, where 60 percent of the Amazon lies. The fires, which are mostly caused by humans with the goal of clearing land for farming and cattle ranching, are having a grievous effect on the forest: the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has nearly doubled since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro came to power on January 1, with the equivalent of 110 football fields of land being cleared every hour. "It's sad to see Brazilians attacking me for fires in the Amazon, as if they hadn't always existed," Bolsonaro wrote on Facebook Thursday. We "remain below the average of the last 15 years. But I'm accused of being a Nero, who sets fires everywhere." Yet fires are at a seven-year high, according to INPE data, and despite a slight drop at the start of the month, the number of active fires recorded in Brazil from the start of the year to September 19 was up 56 percent over the same period in 2018. Nearly half of the blazes are in the Amazon. ![Smokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, in Brazilian the Amazon basin state of Para, in late August 2019](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2019/1-smokesrisesf.jpg) Smokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, in Brazilian the Amazon basin state of Para, in late August 2019 Bolsonaro is a climate change skeptic, but last month he sent soldiers to help put out fires in the Amazon region after Brazil came under criticism at the G7 summit, with the host French President Emmanuel Macron among the most outspoken detractors. Under that deployment, which was renewed Friday for another month, nearly 7,000 soldiers and 16 aircraft are fighting both the flames and "deforestation and illegal mining," Brazil's defense ministry said. ## 'I'm going to get hit' Marcio Astrini, a Greenpeace official in Brazil, said the deployment is making little difference. "We did a lot of fly-overs. We did not see anything happening on the ground, apart from the deforestation that is progressing. It's tragic," he told AFP. Experts sent by the United States, logistical equipment from Japan, and four aircraft from Chile are all fighting the blazes, while firefighters sent from Israel have departed, the [defense ministry](https://phys.org/tags/defense+ministry/) said. ![A forest wildfire spreads onto a farm in the municipality of Nova Santa Helena, in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, in the southern A](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2019/aforestwildf.jpg) A forest wildfire spreads onto a farm in the municipality of Nova Santa Helena, in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, in the southern Amazon basin region Bolsonaro however has blanched at other international offers to help put out the fires, rejecting \$20 million from the G7 and accusing members France and Germany of "buying" Brazil's sovereignty. On Monday, Macron will launch a "call for mobilization" on the Amazon together with his counterparts Sebastian Pinera of Chile and Ivan Duque of Colombia during a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Brazil won't attend the meeting, but Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, also a climate change skeptic, will appear at the UN's climate summit on Monday, before traveling to Europe. On Tuesday, Bolsonaro will make the opening speech at the UN General Assembly, in which he is expected to focus on the Amazon. "I am preparing a rather objective speech, unlike my predecessor," he wrote on Facebook, adding, "I'm going to get hit, you can be sure. The media always finds something to complain about." ![Loss of forest cover and Co2 emissions in countries that share the Amazon river basin between 2001 and 2018](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2019/lossofforest.jpg) Loss of forest cover and Co2 emissions in countries that share the Amazon river basin between 2001 and 2018 Discover the latest in science, tech, and space with over 100,000 subscribers who rely on Phys.org for daily insights. Sign up for our [free newsletter](https://sciencex.com/help/newsletter/) and get updates on breakthroughs, innovations, and research that matter—daily or weekly. ## No end in sight Environmental groups have little faith that Bolsonaro will change tack. The government "wants to show that it is doing the best for the forest. In fact, it is doing its utmost for deforestation," said Greenpeace's Astrini. "Brazil is running a campaign to show that it is taking care of the Amazon. It's a lie," he said. And there's little to suggest that the fires are abating. Between September 18 and 19, the number of forest fires in Rondonia state jumped to 242 from 12 just the day before, an increase of 1,915 percent, according to the INPE. ![Smoke billows from a burning tree trunk near Porto Velho, in the Brazilian Amazon basin state of Rondonia](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2019/1-smokebillows.jpg) Smoke billows from a burning tree trunk near Porto Velho, in the western-central Brazilian Amazon basin state of Rondonia Fears are also rising over the number of blazes in the Cerrado savanna, which account for a third of all the fires in Brazil. And on Friday the World Wide Fund for Nature warned of an "emergency situation in the biome" of the Pantanal wetland. Fires have risen 351 percent since January in the Pantanal region, some 90 percent of which were set illegally. © 2019 AFP Citation: As global leaders meet, the Amazon rainforest burns (2019, September 22) retrieved 11 March 2026 from https://phys.org/news/2019-09-global-leaders-amazon-rainforest.html This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. 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Readable Markdown	![Firefighters in the Brazilian Amazon basin state of Mato Grosso battle a forest blaze in the municipality of Sorriso](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2019/9-firefighters.jpg) Firefighters in the Brazilian Amazon basin state of Mato Grosso battle a forest blaze in the municipality of Sorriso The fires that burned through the Amazon rainforest last month sparked international outcry and offers of help, but as world leaders meet in New York, the planet's largest rainforest remains engulfed in flames. The latest satellite data from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) shows 131,600 fires burning since January within the country, where 60 percent of the Amazon lies. The fires, which are mostly caused by humans with the goal of clearing land for farming and cattle ranching, are having a grievous effect on the forest: the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has nearly doubled since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro came to power on January 1, with the equivalent of 110 football fields of land being cleared every hour. "It's sad to see Brazilians attacking me for fires in the Amazon, as if they hadn't always existed," Bolsonaro wrote on Facebook Thursday. We "remain below the average of the last 15 years. But I'm accused of being a Nero, who sets fires everywhere." Yet fires are at a seven-year high, according to INPE data, and despite a slight drop at the start of the month, the number of active fires recorded in Brazil from the start of the year to September 19 was up 56 percent over the same period in 2018. Nearly half of the blazes are in the Amazon. ![Smokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, in Brazilian the Amazon basin state of Para, in late August 2019](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2019/1-smokesrisesf.jpg) Smokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, in Brazilian the Amazon basin state of Para, in late August 2019 Bolsonaro is a climate change skeptic, but last month he sent soldiers to help put out fires in the Amazon region after Brazil came under criticism at the G7 summit, with the host French President Emmanuel Macron among the most outspoken detractors. Under that deployment, which was renewed Friday for another month, nearly 7,000 soldiers and 16 aircraft are fighting both the flames and "deforestation and illegal mining," Brazil's defense ministry said. ## 'I'm going to get hit' Marcio Astrini, a Greenpeace official in Brazil, said the deployment is making little difference. "We did a lot of fly-overs. We did not see anything happening on the ground, apart from the deforestation that is progressing. It's tragic," he told AFP. Experts sent by the United States, logistical equipment from Japan, and four aircraft from Chile are all fighting the blazes, while firefighters sent from Israel have departed, the [defense ministry](https://phys.org/tags/defense+ministry/) said. ![A forest wildfire spreads onto a farm in the municipality of Nova Santa Helena, in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, in the southern A](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2019/aforestwildf.jpg) A forest wildfire spreads onto a farm in the municipality of Nova Santa Helena, in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, in the southern Amazon basin region Bolsonaro however has blanched at other international offers to help put out the fires, rejecting \$20 million from the G7 and accusing members France and Germany of "buying" Brazil's sovereignty. On Monday, Macron will launch a "call for mobilization" on the Amazon together with his counterparts Sebastian Pinera of Chile and Ivan Duque of Colombia during a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Brazil won't attend the meeting, but Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, also a climate change skeptic, will appear at the UN's climate summit on Monday, before traveling to Europe. On Tuesday, Bolsonaro will make the opening speech at the UN General Assembly, in which he is expected to focus on the Amazon. "I am preparing a rather objective speech, unlike my predecessor," he wrote on Facebook, adding, "I'm going to get hit, you can be sure. The media always finds something to complain about." ![Loss of forest cover and Co2 emissions in countries that share the Amazon river basin between 2001 and 2018](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2019/lossofforest.jpg) Loss of forest cover and Co2 emissions in countries that share the Amazon river basin between 2001 and 2018 ## No end in sight Environmental groups have little faith that Bolsonaro will change tack. The government "wants to show that it is doing the best for the forest. In fact, it is doing its utmost for deforestation," said Greenpeace's Astrini. "Brazil is running a campaign to show that it is taking care of the Amazon. It's a lie," he said. And there's little to suggest that the fires are abating. Between September 18 and 19, the number of forest fires in Rondonia state jumped to 242 from 12 just the day before, an increase of 1,915 percent, according to the INPE. ![Smoke billows from a burning tree trunk near Porto Velho, in the Brazilian Amazon basin state of Rondonia](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2019/1-smokebillows.jpg) Smoke billows from a burning tree trunk near Porto Velho, in the western-central Brazilian Amazon basin state of Rondonia Fears are also rising over the number of blazes in the Cerrado savanna, which account for a third of all the fires in Brazil. And on Friday the World Wide Fund for Nature warned of an "emergency situation in the biome" of the Pantanal wetland. Fires have risen 351 percent since January in the Pantanal region, some 90 percent of which were set illegally. © 2019 AFP Citation: As global leaders meet, the Amazon rainforest burns (2019, September 22) retrieved 11 March 2026 from https://phys.org/news/2019-09-global-leaders-amazon-rainforest.html This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only.
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