Parts of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest Charred and Smoking After Fire (Video)
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Social
Huge swaths of rainforest continue to smoke and burn in Brazil's northwestern state of Rondonia where fire-fighting efforts are concentrated, which has prompted growing global uproar and a diplomatic spat between France and Brazil IMAGES. (Video source: AFP/YouTube)
A researcher from the University of Sydney Danilo Ignacio de Urzedo recently wrote an article for The Conversation stating that the growing number of fires are the result of illegal forest clearing to create land for farming. According to him, The desire for new land for cattle farming has been the main driver of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon since the 1970s.
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Taxonomy
- Environment
- Drought
- Forestry
- Forest Ecosystems
- Forest Conservation
- Forest Restoration
- Dairy Cattle Farming