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Fires triple in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands in 2020
Issued on: 24/07/2020 - 04:18
Rio de Janeiro (AFP)
The number of forest fires in the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetlands, has nearly tripled in 2020 compared to the same period last year, according to satellite data released Thursday.
Brazil's national space agency, INPE, identified 3,506 fires from January 1 to July 22 in the Pantanal, a 192 percent increase from 2019 and the most for the period since records began in 1998.
The trend is all the more troubling given that 2019 already saw a six-fold increase in fires in the region across the full year.
The space agency's map of the Pantanal currently shows a rash of red dots representing fires.
More:
https://www.france24.com/en/20200724-fires-triple-in-brazil-s-pantanal-wetlands-in-2020
