Forest fires rise by 116% in the Amazon between June and July

Even with a presidential decree that prohibited the use of fire as a forestry practice for 120 days in all national territory, data from the monitoring system Inpe indicate that July had an 116% increase in the number of fires compared to the previous month. There were 4,977 hotspots, with more than half in the Amazon states of Pará (1,372 hotspots) and Amazonas (1,173 hotspots). 

Bolsonaro’s decree was an attempt at a public response to the predicted increase in wildfires in regions such as the Amazon and Pantanal due to the beginning of the dry season, considered this year to be one of the most intense ever recorded in the country.