Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests

Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests The number of fires shows no signs of easing as Brazil’s Roraima faces unprecedented blazes, and several Amazonian countries, including Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela, registered record-high outbreaks in the first quarter this year. Fire outbreaks in primary (old-growth) forest in Brazil’s Amazon soared by 152% […]