Deforestation is causing rainforests to catch on fire… and no one is putting out the flames

‘New research has determined that human disturbances have made the Amazon rainforest much more flammable and that even in areas of protected forest human activity has degraded the landscape.
As reported by the BBC, the two-year study of the Brazilian Amazon found that a range of activity including logging and defragmentation has dramatically increased the chance for more wildfires.
Though the Brazilian Amazon is supposed to be protected from widespread deforestation, the new study, which was published in the journal Nature, suggests that a larger effort is necessary to “safeguard the hyper-diversity of tropical forest ecosystems.”‘
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