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by Cobleck weleis. 4 years 244 days ago. 388 reads.

#PrayForAmazon_Rainforest

Aerial view showing smoke billowing from a patch of forest being cleared with fire in the surroundings of Boca do Acre, a city in Amazonas State, in northwestern Brazil, on August 24, 2019 -AFP / LULA SAMPAIO

The Amazon Forest, home to 10% of the world's species, has been on fire for the past three weeks.

What's happening in the Amazon right now is not because of government inaction, but precisely because its very own government deliberately permits, enables, and authorizes the destruction of a massive ecological frontier 😔☹. My heart bleeds.

Notwithstanding such political interests, this, of course, is also a result of the effects exacerbated by human-induced climate change. #PrayForAmazonia 🙏😔

Please take a look at the following links below to get to know more about the issue, how this impacts us globally, and what these wildfires really imply:

-Val Amiel Vestil

(1) The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/amazonian-rainforest-near-unrecoverable-tipping-point
(2) BBC - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49415973
(3) USAToday - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/08/20/amazon-rainforest-fires-smoke-seen-space/2067220001/
(4) New York Post - https://nypost.com/2019/08/20/amazon-rainforest-fires-can-be-seen-from-space/
(5) Euronews - https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/11/brazil-state-of-amazonas-declares-state-of-emergency-over-rising-number-of-forest-fires
(6) CBS News - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-wildfire-parts-of-amazon-rainforest-on-fire-smoke-seen-from-space-2019-08-20/
(7) Newsweek - https://www.newsweek.com/pray-amazonia-brazil-jair-bolsonaro-forest-fires-lungs-planet-1455189
(8) Vox - https://www.vox.com/world/2019/8/20/20813786/wildfire-amazon-rainforest-brazil-siberia

Erinor