Amazon fire1/5/2024 Moist, always-green forests still cover one-tenth of the Earth’s land surface and comprise a large part of the total forest area of the world. ernesto londoñoĪnd you know, for many, many years, it was these images of this raw wildlife and the mystique that laid under the canopy that people were fascinated by. Through ceaseless evolution, a display of flora and fauna has developed here unequaled anywhere else on land. It was this mysterious and dangerous place that drew adventurers and scientists and botanists. The tropical rainforest biome is a complex community exceedingly rich in many forms of plant and animal life, a showplace of natural history. I think for decades, the Amazon captured people’s imagination in a way that few places on Earth did. The great Amazon River of South America is so deep and so wide that the people of Brazil call it the “river sea.” ernesto londoño I mean, I think it’s important to think about the history of the Amazon. So where should we start this story? ernesto londoño But it’s a far more complicated story than we’ve been hearing. And it’s a story about President Bolsonaro. There have been more - ernesto londoñoĪnd this is certainly a story about climate change. archived recordingĪnd scientists warn this could be a devastating blow to the fight against climate change. the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who has shifted his government’s approach on the environment in a really dramatic way. I think, in many people’s minds, there was a clear villain in all of this - archived recordingĭirectly blaming the record fires in the Amazon on Brazilian President Jair - ernesto londoño The Amazon rainforest, the so-called lungs of the world, are now filling with smoke. ernesto londoñoĪnd I think many people, understandably, were left with the impression that, within a few days, the Amazon was going to be reduced to a pile of ashes. You were seeing these really alarming posts and these photographs of patches of the rainforest on fire. archived recordingĪnd actor Leonardo DiCaprio working to help combat the wildfires in the Amazon rainforest. You were seeing presidents, you were seeing celebrities. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has described the fires as an international emergency. With international protests - archived recording 4Īction for the Amazon! archived recording 5 There have been nearly 73,000 fires this year already, a more than 80 percent increase compared to last year. įorest fires are raging in the rainforest. Urgent pleas to save the rainforest as the Amazon burns. michael barbaroĮrnesto Londoño covers Brazil for The Times. Through the prism of Twitter or Facebook, I think a lot of people last week, understandably, engaged in this communal panic about the fate of the world’s largest rainforest. So why is Brazil’s government telling the rest of the world to mind its own business? Today: More than 26,000 fires have been recorded inside the Amazon rainforest in August alone, triggering global calls for action. michael barbaroįrom The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. Transcript Listen to ‘The Daily’: Why the Amazon Is Burning Hosted by Michael Barbaro, produced by Clare Toeniskoetter and Michael Simon Johnson, and edited by Lisa Chow and Lisa Tobin The number of fires raging in the Amazon rainforest this month is the highest in a decade, putting the environmental policies of Brazil’s president in the global spotlight.
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