A man watches a fire in a sugar cane plantation near Dumon city, Brazil, August 24, 2024. REUTERS/Joel Silva
Fires are breaking records Brazil, encompassing wider areas of rainforest, destroying huge swaths of biodiverse wetlands, and even bringing thick smoke and smog to the country’s usually unscathed capital city, Brasilia.A man watches a fire in a sugar cane plantation near Dumon, Brazil, on Aug, 24. More than 2,100 fires blazed in sugar cane fields this summer in Brazil, burning 59,000 hectares and causing $63.
Fire alerts so far this month total almost 3,500 in southeastern São Paulo state, the most registered in any month since data collection began in 1998. Hot spots recorded in the Amazon this summer are up 98 per cent over last year,Two employees working at an industrial plant in São Paulo died Friday while trying to fight back a fire. In the Amazon, a federal brigade firefighter also died Monday while working in the Capoto Jarina Indigenous Territory.
The day after the president made those comments, São Paulo's governor announced four men had been arrested on suspicion of setting fires that destroyed thousands of hectares of sugarcane plantations in the north. To stop this from happening, Mazzetti says the government needs to enact stiffer penalties for environmental crimes, and enforce those laws more stringently.
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