According to a report released yesterday, the Brazilian Amazon rainforest recorded fires that affected 487,000 hectares in the first two months of the year, which warns that fires destroyed 536,000 hectares throughout Brazil during the first t year.
The Monitor do Fogo presented the data on Monday, an initiative of the Annual Mapping Project of Land Use and Land Cover in Brazil (MapBiomas), in partnership with the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM).
The Amazon region accounted for 90 percent of the fires in the country's six biomes (Amazon, Caatinga, Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, Pampa, and Pantanal).
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