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The Brazilian government published on Thursday a decree that prohibits the use of fire during the next 60 days to prepare plantings in the Amazon, affected by the worst fires recorded in recent years.

The decree, published in the Official Gazette , aims to prevent the emergence of new flames of flame, at a time when authorities begin to control the fires unleashed about three weeks ago, which have alarmed the international community.

The felling and burning of the land is a common practice , used even by the natives, which allows preparing the land for planting, and in the Brazilian Amazon it is allowed under certain rules, which are suspended for the next 60 days.

The Brazilian Government, responsible for about 70% of the 7 million square kilometers that the Amazon covers, reported the day before that the outbreaks of fires have begun to decrease , although it did not present data on the entire region.

The authorities only presented concrete statistics on the state of Rondonia, in the north of the country and bordering Bolivia, where the llamas also consume part of the Amazon rainforests.

According to these statistics, between last Monday and Tuesday the heat concentrations observed in Rondonia were reduced from 400 to 24, which was attributed to the action of the Armed Forces , which carry out the fire fighting in that state, one of The most affected by the flames.

The military acts as firefighters since last weekend, after President Jair Bolsonaro, in which he was his first effective measure against fires, ordered them to join the tasks of fighting the flames throughout the Amazon region.

According to the state National Institute of Space Research, the Amazon has registered more than half of the 71,497 forest fires detected in Brazil between January and August of this year, a figure that exceeds 83% of that recorded in the same period of 2018

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