Here’s how you can help the rainforest, even if you don't live in Brazil.
There’s been a significant increase in wildfires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and it’s gotten so bad that the damage can now be seen from space.
🌎Just a little alert to the world: the sky randomly turned dark today in São Paulo, and meteorologists believe it’s smoke from the fires burning *thousands* of kilometers away, in Rondônia or Paraguay. Imagine how much has to be burning to create that much smoke. SOS🌎 pic.twitter.com/P1DrCzQO6x The European Union’s satellite program shows that the smoke from the fires can now be seen from space, because it’s gotten that bad.Produced by @CopernicusEU’s atmosphere monitoring service, it shows the smoke reaching the Atlantic coast and São Paulo 🇧🇷— WMO | OMM August 20, 2019 Here‘s how the Amazon rainforest fires started in the first place.During dry season in Brazil, wildfires often start in the rainforest. That is nothing new.
Brazil‘s president is blaming NGOs, for some reason.Jair Bolsonaro is a controversial president to begin with, especially when it comes to environmental regulations, but he took it to another level Wednesday by saying that non-governmental organizations could be burning the rainforest on purpose to shame the government after Jair cut their funding.
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