According to data from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), more than 2,300 fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon region in June.
This is 2.6 percent more than in June 2020, when the fires had already reached a record - and not as many since June 2007.
At that time there were over 3,500 fires.
At the beginning of the dry season in Amazonia, the alarm bells usually ring for environmentalists and climate activists.
"With the high number of fires at the beginning of the Amazonian summer, months in which there is a natural decline in rainfall in the Amazon region, these numbers tend to rise even more," said a statement from Greenpeace Brazil on Thursday (local time ).
Greenpeace links the fires to rainforest deforestation and climate change.
“We are living in a very sad moment for the forest and its people.” They would be attacked from all sides, be it by loggers and gold diggers advancing into their areas, or by the acts and omissions of Congress and the government.
Economic exploitation of the Amazon
On Tuesday, the Brazilian government banned the burning of land in the Amazon region for 120 days - just like last year, when the fires continued to rage.
Whether Brazil will actually step up its efforts against the destruction is again questionable.
President Jair Bolsonaro is a proponent of the economic exploitation of the Amazon region.
He came under repeated violent criticism because of devastating fires.
He is accused of accepting the destruction in order to open up new areas for agriculture, livestock and mining.