'This is not just a forest that is burning... This is almost a cemetery. Because all you can see is death.' npwcnn flies over the Amazon rainforest to get an aerial view of the devastating fires currently ravaging the region
Flying above the Amazon's worst afflicted state , Rondonia, is exhausting mostly because of the endless scale of the devastation. At first, smoke disguised the constant stream of torched fields, and copses; of winding roads that weaved into nothing but ash. Below, the orange specks of a tiny fire might still rage, but much of the land appeared a mausoleum of the forest that once graced it.
says the state has become one of the most deforested states in the Amazon. Brazil has 85% more fires burning than this time last year -- up to 80,626 nationwide as of Sunday night. Read MorePresident Jair Bolsonaro, after being scolded, called a liar, and threatened with trade sanctions by some leaders of the G7, declared on Friday he would send 43,000 troops to combat the Amazon's inferno. .Brazil's Bolsanaro says he 'loves' the Amazon.
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