Drone captures fire gathering strength in Amazon, leaving blackened forest in its wake

Record ID: 1429090

  • Title: Drone captures fire gathering strength in Amazon, leaving blackened forest in its wake
  • Date: 28th August 2019
  • Summary: RONDONIA, BRAZIL (AUGUST 27, 2019) (MUTE) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SMOKE, FIRE GATHERING STRENGTH IN PART OF AMAZON SUN ABOVE AMAZON RONDONIA, BRAZIL (AUGUST 27, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF FIRE, SMOKE IN PART OF THE AMAZON VARIOUS OF FIRE BURNING THROUGH SHRUBS, TREES ANTS ON TREE NEAR FIRE BIRD ON TREE STUMP NEAR BURNING FIRE FIRE BURNING, CHARRED EARTH NEAR AREA THAT FIRE MOVED THROUGH
  • Embargoed: 11th September 2019 02:48
  • Keywords: Brazil Amazon fires Rondonia
  • Location: RONDONIA, BRAZIL
  • City: RONDONIA, BRAZIL
  • Country: Brazil
  • Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Fires,Editors' Choice
  • Reuters ID: LVA001AU4T3RB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Drone footage from Reuters captures smoke and fires gathering strength in Brazil's Amazon on Tuesday (August 27), leaving behind it a trail of desolation.
    This sombre scene has angered many in the international community as a record number of fires in the Amazon rainforest intensified an unfolding environmental crisis.
    Amid a global chorus of concern and condemnation, Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro pledged in an address to the nation to mobilise the army to help combat the blazes, while his administration launched a diplomatic charm offensive to try to mend bridges overseas.
    Forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon, which accounts for more than half of the world's largest rainforest, have surged in number by 83% this year, according to government data, destroying vast swathes of a vital bulwark against global climate change.
    Environmentalists have warned that his controversial plans for more agriculture and mining in the region will speed up deforestation.
    The Brazilian space agency INPE has registered 72,000 fires this year, the highest number since records began in 2013.
    (Production: Sebastian Rocandio)
  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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