Amazonia Burns at a Record Rate, As Endangered Species Die

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The Amazon is Burning at a Record Rate
Posted on August 25, 2019 by Jerri-Lynn Scofield

The Amazon Rainforest is burning at a record rate. The fires are so big that you can see the smoke from NASA space satellites. On Monday, the sky turned black over the city of Sao Paolo, Brazil and meteorologists found that the smoke filling the sky there was from fires thousands of kilometers away. Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research has documented almost 73,000 forest fires this year already. That’s an 84% uptick from what they saw in the same period last year. This comes amid a spike in deforestation in Brazil under right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. He took office in January. But on Wednesday, Bolsonaro said that NGO’s are to blame for this uptake in fires.

Indigenous peoples are really on the front lines today of the most brutal attack on their rights and on the forest in 30 years. We’re seeing the rollback of 30 years of progress on human rights and environmental protections in Brazil today. Indeed, harkening back to Brazil’s military dictatorship, the times that Jair Bolsonaro eulogizes, that he calls back to all the time, and what he’d like to see is a regime installed that have a similar agenda of wanton destruction of the forest for so-called environmental progress. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/08/the-amazon-is-burning-at-a-record-rate.html

But, indigenous people are not the only organisms becoming extinct in the Brazilian Rainforset

Endangered Animals of the Amazon Rainforest
February 21, 2019 | Amazon Facts
The Amazon Rainforest has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on earth and is home to hundreds of thousands of animal, bird, and insect species. Unfortunately, this utopia of wildlife and vegetation is under attack and has been for some years now. The culprits? Humans.
https://www.rainforestcruises.com/jungle-blog/endangered-animals-of-the-amazon-rainforest

Brazil's Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate, research center says
By Jessie Yeung and Abel Alvarado, CNN

(CNN)Fires are raging at a record rate in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and scientists warn that it could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change.

The Amazon is often referred to as the planet's lungs, producing 20% of the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.

It is considered vital in slowing global warming, and it is home to uncountable species of fauna and flora. Roughly half the size of the United States, it is the largest rainforest on the planet.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/americas/amazon-rainforest-fire-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html

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1. Humans are a virus.

I think the host will get us first, though.

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2. Humans are their own worst enemy: Here's new video of the fire:

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3. Kick for added video