The Amazon Rainforest: 8 Million Hectares Gone in 2019 After Fires by Amazon Watch

This year, over 100,000 fires raged across the Amazon, burning more than 80,000 square kilometers of rainforest and indigenous lands and threatening the integrity of this fragile ecosystem vital to Earth’s climate. Because of Bolsonaro and financial backers like BlackRock, the threats are escalating. At the same time, Ecuadorian security forces were violently repressing indigenous [...]

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