Meanwhile, the Amazon faces an extreme drought that has left several rivers at their lowest levels in history and has isolated dozens of rural communities.

The Brazilian government reported Tuesday that some six million hectares of the planet’s largest tropical forest have been razed by fires since the beginning of the year, which represents 1.6 percent of the biome.

This figure, which covers the period from January 1 to September 1, is close to the nine million 186 thousand hectares of the ecosystem’s surface area burned in all of 2023, according to the Brzilian National Institute for Research.

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