By most accounts, the island was largely deforested within three centuries.
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Deforested lands also are of little interest to hunters and tourists.
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So I'm basically an old tree that's about to be deforested.
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And yet, even they could be hunted and eaten and deforested away.
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A deforested plot of the Amazon near Porto Velho on Aug. 21.
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The moratorium does not apply to soy areas deforested before that year.
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When lands are deforested, increased sedimentation and warmer waters can damage fisheries.
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Among the areas most at risk are deforested areas, including farms and human settlements.
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The area was deforested years ago, but more recently a college re-planted trees.
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The measure helped bring about a drastic decrease in beef originating from deforested land.
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The total deforested area in July wasup 39%from the same month last year.
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The total deforested area in July wasup 39% from the same month last year.
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Land recently burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Canutama, Brazil, on Sept. 2.
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The area surrounding Simikot has been deforested so people travel long distances to get fuel.
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A hundred years earlier, these acres had been deforested by cattle ranchers and sugar planters.
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The total deforested area in July was up 39% from the same month last year.
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NASA says the state has become one of the most deforested states in the Amazon.
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"We can grow these plants on soils where it's already been deforested," Dr. Baker said.
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"The brown really contrasts with the green," he continued, comparing the forest and deforested areas.
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"We don't know what is cattle reared on deforested land and what isn't," said Sancler.
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Wilmar promised in 2013 to seek to end purchases of palm oil grown on deforested land.
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More than 730,000 acres were both deforested and burned in the Brazilian Amazon this year alone.
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Over the last decade, an area larger than South Korea has been deforested from the savanna.
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The rain washed away entire villages in the deforested hills near the border with the Dominican Republic.
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Since the 1970s, 20 percent of the Amazon has been deforested, totaling about twice the area of California.
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Today, vast swaths of rainforest are actively deforested to make way for crops and provide land for cattle.
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Much of their habitat has also been deforested, and they are listed as critically endangered by the IUCN.
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Hass avocados shipped in some temperature controlled pallet via a patch of deforested Mexican farmland don't taste good.
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As the Amazon is deforested and the world heats uncontrollably, what better locus for our fears than water?
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Over the past decade, he and others in the region have deforested an area larger than South Korea.
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If so, a pixel will turn red over the newly deforested area, and an alert will be sent out.
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An aerial view of a deforested plot of the Amazon near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, in Brazil, Aug. 220.
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Close to 20% of the Amazon has already been deforested, said Thomas Lovejoy, a George Mason University environmental scientist.
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"The next step is to pinpoint areas that were deforested two years ago," Fa told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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However, it must be laboriously mined from deforested land, and brought to the surface in order to be used.
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Brazil's three largest meatpackers have all committed to not buying any cattle directly from farms using illegally deforested land.
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The largest projects, north of Fort McMurray have been largely unscathed, protected in part by their wide, deforested perimeters.
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Woldegiorgis said his community has committed to planting three tree seedlings per community member on deforested land each year.
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It helps them reforest deforested or understocked areas; and engages family landowners in forest practices that produce carbon benefits.
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For me, these little blips of green forest rising out of vast swaths of deforested brown earth represent hope.
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IBAMA has the power to seize cattle in land that's been deforested and burned, and even issue huge fines.
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An Associated Press journalist who traveled to the Amazon region Friday saw many already deforested areas that had been burned.
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Satellite images show that in many countries indigenous lands are less likely to be deforested than similar non-demarcated ones.
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Some "negative emissions" technologies – such as replanting deforested areas with more trees, which absorb carbon to grow – are relatively uncontroversial.
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"They knew what they were doing," said Hindemberg Cruz, IBAMA's executive manager in Marabá, a badly deforested area of Pará.
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He chose a soybean tycoon who has deforested large tracts of the Amazon rain forest to be his agriculture minister.
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Some large food companies say they are working to prevent products grown on deforested land from entering their supply chains.
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These once-productive lands have either become deserts, are polluted, or have been deforested and converted for unsustainable agricultural production.
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President Jair Bolsonaro sought to temper criticism, arguing that previously deforested areas had burned and that intact rainforest was spared.
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has insisted the fires have affected previously deforested areas rather than intact sections of the forest.
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In August 2018, 545 square kilometers of forest were cleared—three times more than the area deforested the previous August.
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The U.S. Forest Service says the U.S. was hugely deforested between 1630, at the start of European settlement, and 1907.
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A search engine is trying to slow climate change by funneling profits into organizations that plant trees in deforested areas.
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The U.S. Forest Service says the U.S. was massively deforested between 1630, at the start of European settlement, and 1907.
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The U.S. Forest Service says the country was hugely deforested between 1630, at the start of European settlement, and 1907.
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And global grain traders in 2006 voluntarily agreed to stop purchasing any soy harvested from newly deforested Amazon jungle areas.
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But by mid December, something miraculous appeared behind the newly deforested cyclone fence that was apparently always behind the other fence.
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The deforested, drained peatlands are highly flammable, and smouldering peatland fires have caused choking haze across Southeast Asia in recent years.
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In its latest operation, IBAMA said 84 percent of the animals detected as coming from deforested lands were bought by JBS.
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SBS News reports that illegal logging in the Amazon in Brazil contributed to a 14% increase in deforested land last year.
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Though many communities are stakeholders in the logging industry, others have witnessed traditional lands become deforested without their input or consent.
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A Tepco guide explained this was because the central plant grounds had been deforested and paved over, sealing in contaminated soil.
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But only 2% of the additional area, or 65,000 hectares, is soy planted in areas deforested after the moratorium's 2008 limit.
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In June Mr Bolsonaro published a decree which indefinitely extends the 2019 deadline for farmers to begin replanting illegally deforested land.
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President Jair Bolsonaro also tried to temper global concern, saying that previously deforested areas had burned and that intact rainforest was spared.
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The rate remains well above the 4,571 square kilometers deforested in 2012, which was the low since records began in 2004/2005.
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In response to Greenpeace's 2009 report, several brands adopted policies aimed at removing cattle raised on deforested lands from their supply chains.
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Indonesia has vast swathes of plantations growing palm oil or coffee on deforested land that conservationists say often encroach on or disrupt ecosystems.
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Indonesia has vast swathes of plantations growing palm oil or coffee on deforested land that conservations say often encroach on or disrupt ecosystems.
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This effect is most obvious in tropical rainforest areas, which are being deforested at an accelerating pace to create pasture lands for livestock.
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"Every square kilometer that you can avoid being deforested is equivalent to taking 1,000 cars off the road for a year," said White.
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Mount Olivella, which overlooks the town of Sapri, was partially deforested in the mid 2000s, leading to regional flooding that still occurs today.
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Cattle ranches account for up to 80 percent of deforested land in the Amazon, according to the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
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Although Chapada Diamantina became protected as a national park in 1985, it was heavily deforested and mined up until then and is still recuperating.
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But oil industry environmental regulator ASEA in January ruled that the contractor that deforested the land did not have the correct permits to do so.
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Five grain trading houses, including Cargill and Bunge, were recently fined 24.6 million reais for buying crops grown on illegally deforested land in the Amazon.
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Recent heavy rains have endangered residents in dozens of towns and cities, especially in neighborhoods of makeshift construction on deforested slopes of the Andes mountains.
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The 5.1 million hectares of deforested and degraded land targeted for landscape and forest restoration is equivalent in size to Costa Rica in Central America.
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Both companies said they were committed to protecting the environment and supported a 2006 soy moratorium in Brazil, which bans purchases from recently deforested areas.
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Ibama employees said they have also been hamstrung by new restrictions on their ability to destroy logging and mining equipment found in illegally deforested areas.
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Unesco noted "the combined work of nature and human activity" in the region, including sheep farming on deforested hillsides, stone villages and grand country estates.
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The agreement, struck with Greenpeace in 2009, called for the meatpackers not to buy cattle from ranchers who raised their beef in newly deforested areas.
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Mudslides have become common during the monsoon season in Sri Lanka, as land has been heavily deforested to grow export crops like tea and rubber.
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Major beef and soy firms have been fined millions for buying commodities sourced from illegally deforested land, but such rules have proved difficult to enforce.
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At the time the play was written, the Russian aristocracy was in twilight, the serfs had been emancipated, swaths of the taiga were being deforested.
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"This awards the guy who deforested, awards the guy who disobeyed the law," Nurit Bensusan, policy coordinator at the Brazilian nongovernmental organization Instituto Socioambiental, told Reuters.
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Bambuhay has partnered with the Philippines government and farmers to replant 540 hectares (1,340 acres) of deforested land through the company's Bamboo AgroForestry Program, Gersava said.
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Though the scientists expect that the monitor lives in the intact forests in the interior of the island, they suspect it can't survive in deforested habitat.
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Some of these forests are more than a thousand years old, and are unusually rich areas of biodiversity in areas otherwise barren or deforested for agriculture.
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Landslides are common in mountainous Colombia, especially during rainy season and in areas where precarious informal housing and narrow roadways are constructed on deforested Andean hillsides.
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The company said it did not have access to the government's system for tracking animals, and called for more readily available information on blacklisted deforested areas.
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The proposal would pay eligible Cerrado farmers an average of $150 per hectare per year for preserving areas that could otherwise be legally deforested, Pires said.
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The ministry's last report on the biome had found that Brazil deforested an average 9,483 square km per year in the region between 2014 and 2015.
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Larger ranchers, truckers and traders have set up elaborate schemes to "launder" cattle raised on illegally deforested land on the legitimate market, said analysts and officials.
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In January, two weeks after spotting the deforested area via drone, they crossed a river and trekked for a day to see the devastation for themselves.
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"While on site the audit team visited portions of the property and confirmed that the areas planned for reforestation are currently deforested," according to the report.
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"This awards the guy who deforested, awards the guy who disobeyed the law," said Nurit Bensusan, policy coordinator at the Brazilian non-governmental organization Instituto Socioambiental.
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It may have been deforested, where many trees have been cut down and the land is primarily used for another purpose such as farming or infrastructure.
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In January, two weeks after spotting the deforested area via drone, they crossed a river and trekked for a day to see the devastation for themselves.
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But in contrast to the 2006 Amazon soy moratorium, the Cerrado Manifesto did not commit signatories to halt purchases of farm products from newly deforested areas.
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Reuters recently published a story about Thai shrimp farmers who are replanting mangroves on deforested coastlines to farm organic shrimp in less intensive, more ecologically-friendly operations.
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The Bonn Challenge is a global effort to restore 150 million hectares of the world's deforested and degraded land by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030.
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Fires and home construction in the last 40 years have deforested about 10% of Henri Pittier Park, said Enrique Garcia, director of the ecological group Let's Plant.
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Deforested areas will need to be monitored as invasive plant species are likely to take advantage of the nutrient flushes and disturbances created by willow removal, he added.
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"It's impossible to buy cows from land that isn't deforested," Felipe Oliveira told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in his tatty office at the abattoir in Brazil's Amazonas State.
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The operation focused on areas that had already been illegally deforested and had been declared out of bounds by Ibama, in order to allow native vegetation to regrow.
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While a deforested area can be restored relatively quickly, with fire "you kill all the life in this place, even underground, the microorganisms inside the soil," he says.
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Separately, Netherlands-based Louis Dreyfus Company in June became the first major commodity trader to pledge to stop buying soy from newly deforested land specifically in the Cerrado.
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The steepest decline in population density occurred in areas that were deforested or altered for industrial agriculture, including the production of palm oil, one of Indonesia's major exports.
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While reforestation reintroduces trees to land only recently deforested, afforestation means planting trees in areas that have been without forests for a long time (or have never supported forests).
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On Friday, the reporter saw many already deforested areas that were burned, apparently by people clearing farmland, as well as a large column of smoke billowing from one fire.
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The Cerrado is half the size of the Amazon and is 50% deforested, according to Edegar de Oliveira Rosa, director of Conservation and Restoration of Ecosystems at WWF-Brazil.
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Lansana Gberie, an academic and journalist from Sierra Leone, urged the government to stop illegal construction and commission tree planting on deforested slopes, which are more vulnerable to slips.
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Ranked as the second-poorest country in the northern hemisphere, heavily deforested Nicaragua is one of the region's most vulnerable to disasters – hit regularly by storms, floods, droughts and earthquakes.
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The areas at the edges of the forest, where tree cover is thinner, and the areas that have been deforested by loggers or farmers, do not have this same protection.
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While opponents are correct that the South is among the most intensively deforested regions of the world, they fail to mention that it is also the most intensively reforested region.
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Data from Brazilian satellites indicated that about three football fields' worth of Amazonian trees fell every minute, and the total deforested area in July was up 39% year over year.
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Some regions, such as those deforested for mining and oil drilling, may have severe contamination of the water and soil, which would require extensive remediation before a forest could return.
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Major trading companies operating in Brazil already observe the so-called "Soy Moratorium," which after 2008 bans purchase and financing of crops grown in deforested areas of the Amazon biome.
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In 2009, the three biggest Brazilian meatpacking companies signed an agreement with the environmental group Greenpeace not to buy cattle from ranchers who raised their beef in newly deforested areas.
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In light of that ravenous demand, Brazilian farmers have pushed for the end of a ban by global traders on buying soy from parts of the Amazon deforested after 2008.
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In light of that ravenous demand, Brazilian farmers have pushed for the end of a ban by global traders on buying soy from parts of the Amazon deforested after 2008.
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More than 600,000 hectares (1,482,630 acres) of savannah land have been deforested since 2011 in areas where traders including agricultural giants Bunge and Cargill source soy beans, according to Mighty Earth.
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The new initiative will count towards the Bonn Challenge, a 2011 global goal to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030.
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A calf may be born on illegally deforested land and then ultimately sold to a fattening ranch whose land was cleared long ago and is within the terms of the accord.
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Rondônia has lost an area of forest the size of West Virginia The image above shows the state of Rondônia in western Brazil, one of the most deforested parts of the Amazon.
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In 2017, Ibama said it fined 14 meat-packers and applied fines totally 294 million reais ($76.5 million) as part of an investigation into illegal ranching in deforested areas of the Amazon.
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The fact remains that a company has created a website and video to promote a device designed to survive the destruction we've created in the form of deforested land and smoggy cities.
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Human activity has deforested, replanted and irrigated large areas of land, added pollution to the skies, depleted the ozone layer and, yes, changed the concentrations of key greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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In 1989 the company announced that it "never has and never will buy beef from recently deforested rainforests" and it has also worked to limit the expansion of soy farming in the region.
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In the so-called "IPCC Lands Report," more than 20203 of the world's top climate scientists find that almost three-quarters of the Earth's ice-free surface has been paved, plowed or deforested.
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We may agree that deforested continents and melting permafrost betray the gravest assaults we've ever committed against anything or anyone, but still tend to behave as if it's impolite to bring this up.
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"The key to fire and haze prevention in Indonesia centres on the question of how to restore flammable deforested peatlands back to the fire-proof system they once were," said climate scientist David Gaveau.
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A team of Australian researchers found that bees buzzing around biodiverse, wooded areas had higher metabolic rates, meaning their little furry bodies were performing life-sustaining functions faster than bees in a deforested landscape.
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Last year alone, over 3,2000 square miles were deforested, and if Brazilian President Michel Temer gets his way, a host of new infrastructure projects — dams, man-made waterways, mines — will only accelerate the degradation.
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Last year alone, over 26,2400 square miles were deforested, and if Brazilian President Michel Temer gets his way, a host of new infrastructure projects — dams, man-made waterways, mines — will only accelerate the degradation.
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This has led to revisions in the forestry code, in 2012, that favor agriculture, not the environment, by exempting those who illegally deforested before 2008 from having to reforest in accordance with the law.
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BOCA DO ACRE, Brazil (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At the FrigoAmazonas slaughter house inside the world's largest rainforest, the owner doesn't mince his words - much of the cattle processed here comes from illegally deforested land.
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In February, researchers were able to link massive deforestation in that country to the parasite's increasing spread—it turns out that one species of macaque known to carry P. knowlesi thrives on deforested land.
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Senegal's Lac Rose in West Africa, the Saudi Arabian deserts, Nepal's high-altitude Kali-Gandaki valley and retreating glaciers in Greenland are visited before the series ends on deforested land in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Fast food chain Burger King, which is accused by Mighty Earth of buying soy from deforested Brazilian land and of falling behind other firms in its environmental record, didn't respond to repeated requests for comment.
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Tchamba said any effort to restore trees in a deforested landscape, "no matter how small", would help capture rain, conserve the soil, preserve biodiversity and reduce the effects of climate change by storing more carbon.
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Brazilian agriculture doesn't have to move farther into the forest to increase its output; improvements in productivity, as well as recovering millions of acres of already deforested, degraded land, could fuel further growth in production.
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If the Amazon were completely deforested, rainfall in Texas would drop by 25%, the Sierra Nevada snowpack would get cut in half, and the coastal northwest would see a reduction in precipitation up to 20%.
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Many of the Tarahumara, including Mr. Baldenegro and his family, were forced to leave their communities before the threat of armed men who arrived to clear the forest and plant marijuana on the deforested mountainsides.
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Degraded forests The researchers identified ecosystems around the world that would naturally support some level of tree cover, but have become "degraded" -- deforested for timber, for example, or turned into farmland that has since been abandoned.
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The most recent data from the nonprofit Institute of Man and the Environment of Amazonia showed that the area deforested in May 2018 was about 70 percent larger compared to the same month a year earlier.
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A recent UN report said that for a mere $300 billion, Earth could return deforested or abandoned land to pasture and sequester enough carbon to stave off the worst effects of climate change for 20 years.
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In 2019, Garcia estimates Karst's paper production helped save 0003 large timber trees from being deforested, 83,100 liters (21,22018 gallons) of water from being used and 230,2000 kilograms (299,210 pounds) of carbon dioxide from being emitted.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Natural and human factors made Sierra Leone's capital vulnerable to a landslide that killed more than 400 people this week: heavy rain, deforested land and communities forced by overcrowding to live on steep hillsides.
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Right now, the Amazon has been deforested by 15 percent or more from its primeval state and scientists are worried that if it reaches 25 percent, there won't be enough trees cycling water through the forest.
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About 865,000 acres of land have been deforested, on average, annually for agriculture since 2011, according to estimates from the nongovernmental Bolivia Documentation and Information Center, an area nearly the equivalent of Rhode Island in size.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazil's largest grocery chain has pledged to stop selling beef produced on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest in what campaigners say is a victory for the environment and human rights.
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David Gaveau, of the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), used satellite images and data on concessions from more than four decades to determine how fast deforested land was converted into industrial plantations on Borneo.
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Decades earlier, it had been deforested, overgrazed and then "pinappled," as he described it, forging a verb as perhaps only a poet can — an act of agricultural imperialism that had denuded the land of its native foliage.
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The changes effectively reduced deforested land that must be restored under previous rules by 112,20123 square miles (290,000 square km), an area nearly the size of Italy, according to a 2014 study published in the journal Science.
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Every apartment has white oak floors and 150-year-old Carolina yellow pine beams that are original to the building's construction — a type of wood that isn't available because the trees were completely deforested in the 0003th century.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian food processor JBS SA has been buying cattle from ranchers operating on deforested land in the Amazon that the government had said must not be used for grazing, a newspaper report said on Tuesday.
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Scientists have long argued that they can use the forest — a mix of deciduous and evergreen trees towering over thick undergrowth — to study how natural processes worked for thousands of years, before humans deforested most of the Continent.
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This concentration of fires in municipalities experiencing high deforestation rates in a non-drought year tells us that the fires of 2202 were lit intentionally to clear recently deforested areas of the felled giants trees of the Amazon.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil all but stopped growth of soy farming in newly deforested parts of its Amazon rainforest during the 2624-2017 crop year after efforts to halt purchases of beans from such areas, official data showed on Wednesday.
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Repórter Brasil, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and The Guardian reported that a JBS supplier in the northern Brazilian state of Pará had been raising cattle in a deforested area that had been embargoed by the environment agency Ibama.
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Indonesia has vast swathes of palm or coffee plantations growing on deforested land, and the year's second such killing is the latest in a series officials often blame on plantation workers and farmers who encounter wildlife on their property.
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As much as 3 feet (1 meter) of rain was forecast to fall over hills in Haiti that are largely deforested and prone to flash floods and mudslides, threatening villages as well as shantytowns in the capital Port-au-Prince.
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However, in January, the Blantyre Water Board signed a memorandum of understand with the Mulanje District Council and others to allow the project, on the condition that the board plant trees in the Likhubula River's deforested catchment area, the demonstrators aid.
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Soy farming in 2016-2017 grew to account for roughly 474 square kilometers of jungle deforested since 2008 - an area larger than New Orleans - up from 63 square kilometers the same period a year ago, according to the Environment Ministry.
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SAO PAULO, July 2 (Reuters) - Brazilian food processor JBS SA has been buying cattle from ranchers operating on deforested land in the Amazon that the government had said must not be used for grazing, a newspaper report said on Tuesday.
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Of course, much of reforestation happens in areas that have been deforested, and if Ecosia's partners cannot address the existing incentives to chop down trees—namely a need for agricultural land, firewood, and timber—the company might take its funds elsewhere.
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Mangroves in particular are being deforested even faster, according to the Nature Conservancy — with even more severe consequences for the global climate, since an acre of mangrove stores five to 10 times as much carbon as an acre of rainforest.
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None could say with certainty that they did not use palm oil from recently deforested land; most could not say how much of their palm oil comes from suppliers that meet their standards and how much comes from third parties that do not.
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However, earlier this year lawmakers tacked on amendments that critics said had turned the decree in practice into an amnesty for landowners who collectively had deforested about 5 million hectares (12.35 million acres) in recent years, an area slightly smaller than Costa Rica.
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Mars said that while GAR is not a direct supplier to the company, it can be difficult to keep track of its entire supply chain, and was hoping to use no palm oil grown in deforested areas by the end of next year.
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SAO PAULO, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The world's largest meatpacker JBS SA is using satellites to monitor a 450,000 square-km (280,000 square mile) area of Brazil to guarantee it is not buying cattle from deforested areas, Chief Executive Gilberto Tomazoni said on Wednesday.
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Due to natural disasters like hurricanes, we now hold similarities with Haiti: a deforested territory; scarcity of food; a collapsed economy and infrastructure that will cause many people to go months — or years — without electricity, clean water, internet and other basic needs.
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A University of Wisconsin study found that nearly 1 million hectares on soy farms could still be legally deforested in the Cerrado, with only 17 percent of soy farms having more than 10 hectares eligible for opening and 4 percent having more than 100 hectares.
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The data, based on satellite images, reveal that about 3,750 square miles were deforested between August of 2018 and July of this year, mostly by illegal clearing and burning of the forest, a 29.5% increase over the area lost in the previous 12-month period.
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"The decline in population density was most severe in areas that were deforested or transformed for industrial agriculture, as orangutans struggle to live outside forest areas," said a lead researcher for the study, Maria Voigt of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.
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Climate models show that the Amazon's moisture affects rainfall as far away as the US. If the Amazon were completely deforested, that would cut Texas rainfall by 25%, cut the Sierra Nevada snowpack in half, and reduce precipitation by up to 20% in the US coastal northwest.
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SAO PAULO, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Brazilian farmers risk losing part of the European market for soy products estimated at $5 billion per year if they scrap a so-called soy moratorium barring grain traders from buying oilseed from areas in the Amazon that have been deforested.
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This followed on the Bonn Challenge, launched by Germany and the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 173, which aimed to restore more than half a million square miles of deforested and degraded land around the world by 2020 and more than double that by 2030.
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"It is definitely something to be concerned about, especially with more research coming out about reaching a tipping point," Mikaela Weisse, a manager of Global Forest Watch, told The New York Times, adding that many of the fires currently burning are in areas which had previously been deforested.
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This demonstrates the potential of this kind of work in the most deforested regions of the country, like Caquetá, Guaviare, the south of Meta, the north of Chocó, the Catatumbo, the south of Bolívar, or the lower Cauca, where deforestation has occurred largely because of extensive cattle ranching.
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An aerial view over a chemically deforested area of the Amazon jungle caused by illegal mining activities in the river basin of the Madre de Dios region in southeast Peru, on May 17, 2019, during the 'Mercury' joint operation by Peruvian military and police ongoing since February 2019.
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But as Wampler would discover, Haiti's reputation as a deforested wasteland is based on myth more than fact — an example of how conservation and environmental agendas, often assumed to be rooted in science, can become entangled with narratives about race and culture that the powerful tell about the third world.
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As the road heads west, it skirts the area where Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia all meet, and rolls through a deforested swath of the Amazon—wide, open plains that were once jungle, where cows graze and corn now grows, and where the few surviving Brazil nut trees stand alone in the middle of the rippling, fertile plains.
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The rise in fires set in the Amazon this year, stoked by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's encouragement of large-scale deforestation for logging and agriculture, is emblematic of the region's persistent deforestation woes: Some fires are set to clear forest that has already been chopped down, many fires are the reburning of already deforested agricultural land, and some fires are escaped, uncontrolled blazes.
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