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Fires spread across the Amazon rainforest

By Associated Press

Aug. 27, 2019

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Firefighters in the Brazilian state of Rondonia struggled to contain a fast-moving fire near a national forest reserve as uncertainty loomed over whether Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro would accept international aid to help fight the wildfire.
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A forest fire burns near Porto Velho, Brazil, Tuesday. Fires across the Brazilian Amazon have sparked an international outcry for preservation of the world's largest rainforest.
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A river runs through Porto Velho in Brazil's Amazon, Tuesday. While many of the recorded fires this year were set in already deforested areas by people clearing land for cultivation or pasture, Brazilian government figures indicate that they are much more widespread this year, suggesting the threat to the vast ecosystem is intensifying.
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A lone tree stands in a deforested farm field near Porto Velho, Brazil, Tuesday.
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Wakonkra Kayapo, of the Kayapo indigenous community, carries his rifle as he searches for tracks left behind by suspected prospectors and loggers on Bau indigenous territory in Altamira, in Brazil's Amazon, where fires burn nearby, Tuesday. "The forest will stay in its place. It can't be taken down. We take care the land", said the 68-year-old man who describes himself as a "small warrior."
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Fire consumes the Amazon rainforest in Altamira, Brazil, Tuesday.
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Charred trees stand in an area scorched by wildfires in the Chiquitania Forest near Robore, Bolivia, Tuesday. While global attention has been focused on fires burning across the Brazilian Amazon, neighboring Bolivia is battling its own vast blazes.
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Land smolders during a forest fire in Altamira in Brazil's Amazon, Monday. The fire is very close to Kayapo indigenous land located on the Bau indigenous reserve.
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Firefighters work to put out fires along the road to Jacunda National Forest, near the city of Porto Velho in the Vila Nova Samuel region which is part of Brazil's Amazon, Monday. The Group of Seven nations on Monday pledged tens of millions of dollars to help Amazon countries fight raging wildfires, even as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused rich countries of treating the region like a "colony."
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Amid smoke from forest fires, cattle graze on a farm along the road to Jacunda National Forest, near the city of Porto Velho in the Vila Nova Samuel region which is part of Brazil's Amazon, Monday.
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A fire burns along the road to Jacunda National Forest, near the city of Porto Velho in the Vila Nova Samuel region which is part of Brazil's Amazon, Monday.
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A fire burns in highway margins in the city of Porto Velho, Rondonia state, part of Brazil's Amazon, Sunday.
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Trees are destroyed after a fire in the Alvorada da Amazonia region, in Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, Sunday. The country's satellite monitoring agency has recorded more than 41,000 fires in the Amazon region so far this year, with more than half of those coming in August alone.
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Fire consumes a field along the BR 070 highway near Cuiaba, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, Sunday. Experts say most of the fires are set by farmers or ranchers clearing existing farmland, but the same monitoring agency has reported a sharp increase in deforestation this year as well.
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Charred trees stand as a forest fire sweeps through the Vila Nova Samuel region, along the road to the Jacunda National Forest near the city of Porto Velho, Rondonia state, part of Brazil's Amazon, Sunday.
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Fire consumes a field along the BR 070 highway near Cuiaba, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, Sunday. Leaders of the Group of Seven nations said Sunday they were preparing to help Brazil fight the fires burning across the Amazon rainforest and repair the damage even as tens of thousands of soldiers were being deployed to fight the blazes that have caused global alarm.
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Charcoal-making furnaces and wooden planks are seen from the air, in the city of Jaci Parana, Rondonia state, Brazil, Saturday. Brazil says military aircraft and 44,000 troops will be available to fight fires sweeping through parts of the Amazon region. The defense and environment ministers have outlined plans to battle the blazes that have prompted an international outcry as well as demonstrations in Brazil against President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the environmental crisis.
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A lush forest sits next to a field of charred trees destroyed by wildfires near Porto Velho, Brazil, Friday.
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