Amazon fires: the tribes fighting to save their dying rainforest

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Indigenous people in Brazil have vowed to protect their land as large swathes of the Amazon forest continue to burn. The largest rainforest in the world absorbs billions of tonnes of CO2 every year, slowing the pace of global heating. It is also home to about 3m species of plants and animals and a million people.

‘Worst of wildfires still to come’ despite Brazil claiming crisis is under control ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/28/brazil-amazon-wildfires-worst-to-come

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39 Comments

  1. that's odd, you would think these "natives" would have noticed that massive forest fires have occurred every single year for the last thousand millenias

  2. Nowadays in All countries Politicians are the real devil ? thy don’t care about their nation and the folks it’s all about ?????so sad ?

  3. i know the pain of their people as it happened to my people the indigenous Borneo a generation ago… the native will always be victimized to that cruel cooperation of states and country soft colonization in a form of demographic engineering…

  4. Humans pollute the oceans, pollute the land, pollute the air, kill animals into extinction, and destroy forests. All these things will catch up to us and our children and future generation will pay the ultimate price.

  5. BOLSANO IS NOT DOING ANYTHING,WHERE ARE THE SUPER TANKERS.?????,,MASSIVE EXTERMINATING EVERY F0rmOF LIVE IN THE AMAZONE FOR EVER!!!!!b. BOYCOT BRASIL DONT BUY BRSILIAN LEATHER MEAT. SOY BEAM PAL OIL COFFEE. TRAVEL. Bolsonaro have to go.!!!!!!!!!!! Ask the brasilian tribes,they know, who is burning. AMAZON CRY,ASK POR HELP.AND THE WORLD WAKE UP,

  6. “I have a dream and that dream is to one day live in a world without forests. A world where eighty percent of land animals and plants do not live in forests. A world where eighty percent of animals and plants do not live at all. A world where their is world wide famine” Jair Bolsonaro

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