The Amazon is burning

The Amazon Rainforest is burning.
This is not good.

What can any of us do?
Putting out the fires is not an option - there are too many of them - they need to burn themselves out, or have huge amounts of retardant (chemicals) dropped with untold consequences. and further fires need to be avoided (which is not going to happen given Bolsonaro's stance)

We are told that essentially one out of every five breaths we take is provided by the trees of the Amazon, and the fires are over 80% larger than last year.

Read this piece on The Intercept.

I saw this image of representatives of indigenous groups standing ready to fight for the forest. I was a member of Survival International for many years back in the 80s and 90s.

WWF seem to be doing the most on the ground perhaps.



Some leaders are also leaders. Here's Macron, who will also be hosting the G7 this weekend.
Here's another perspective on the fires.


There's also the thought that we burned all our forests in the rush to industrialise and settle the UK, and so we can't be too outraged when another country does the same?

It would be good to have a bit of good global news...

How does this play out in the teaching of this topic / ecosystem next time round I wonder...

Also bear in mind of course, how these maps are representing the fires...
An interesting tweet here.

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