China News Service, September 2 (Central News Agency) reported that wildfires in Brazil continue to burn. The Brazilian National Institute of Space Research pointed out that the Pantanal recorded 5,935 fires in August, setting the second highest record in the history of the month; the Amazon Rainforest 29,307 fires were recorded, 12.4% higher than the historical average.
On August 16, 2020 local time, a fire in the Amazon Rainforest Reserve south of New Presso, Para, Brazil, continued with thick smoke.
Brazil’s Ministry of Environment has ordered a ban on fire in the Pantanal and the Amazon rainforest for 120 days starting on July 16.
Brazilian President Bolsonaro also stated in the Mercosur online video conference held on August 2 due to the new crown epidemic that the Brazilian government will continue to conduct dialogues through different channels to let everyone see Brazil’s measures to protect the Amazon rainforest and indigenous peoples. Action.
The National Institute of Space Research of Brazil began monitoring domestic biomes in 1998. So far this year, there have been 91,130 fires in all biomes in Brazil, and 50,694 fires have been recorded in August alone.
The Pantanal is located in the two states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso Sul in central and western Brazil. There were 5,935 fires from August 1 to 31, 3.5 times that of the same period in 2019, the second in the history of the month. High record.
The highest in history was August 2005, with a total of 5,993 fires recorded.
On August 16, 2020 local time, a fire in the Amazon Rainforest Reserve south of New Presso, Para, Brazil, continued with thick smoke.
Felipe Dias, the chief executive of the non-governmental organization SOS Pantanal Wetlands, said that although it is not certain that they are all destructive arsons, it is speculated that 99% of the fire sources are human actions, such as lighting and burning waste. If Ye clears the land, he may cause a forest fire if he is not careful.
Another important factor leading to wildfires in the Pantanal is the longest and worst dry season in the past 47 years in central and western Brazil. Even in the wet season at the beginning of this year, there was very little rainfall.
Diaz pointed out that most of the rain in the Pantanal wetland area comes from the upper reaches of the river, especially the Paraguay River, which brings about 60% to 70% of the water that floods the swamp.
But this year the rain was not enough to flood the swamp, and the litter of a large number of trees continued to accumulate to provide fuel for the fire.
The Amazon Rainforest in Brazil recorded 29,307 fires from August 1 to 31, a decrease of approximately 5.2% from the same period in 2019, but 12.4% more than the historical average of the month, the second highest in the past 10 years.
Alenka, scientific director of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, said that the number of fires recorded in August this year was slightly less than that of the same period in 2019, but it is not worth celebrating, because many people living in the Amazon region are facing serious problems due to the dense smoke from forest fires. Of air pollution.