According to the scientists, there are three main types of fire in the Amazon—all of which are caused my human activities.
The team has shown that the number of active fires in August 2019 was nearly three times higher than the same month in 2018—and the highest since 2010. Furthermore, the researchers say there is"strong evidence" that this increase was linked to deforestation.
"They are all started by human actions: to burn felled trees as part of the deforestation process, to maintain agricultural land, or as malevolent arson in land disputes," Barlow toldThe first type, deforestation fires, are used after primary forest has been cleared and the vegetation has dried in order to prepare the area for agriculture.
Of the different types, the researchers say the fires in summer this year were associated with deforestation, according to an analysis of data collected by the Brazilian government's DETER-b service. These findings are consistent with media footage and images that show large-scale fires in deforested areas. The researchers add that the exceptional nature of 2019 is highlighted by unusually high fire counts in some protected areas, such as Jamanxim National Forest, where the number of blazes increased by 355 percent from 2018 to 2019.
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