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#PRAYFORAMAZONIA TRENDS AS BRAZIL'S JAIR BOLSONARO BLASTED FOR INACTION OVER 3-WEEK-LONG FOREST FIRES RAVAGING THE 'LUNGS OF OUR PLANET'The hashtag #PrayforAmazonia is trending on Twitter as fires have ravaged swathes of the Amazon region, leading many social media users to slam the lack of concern from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's administration.

One large fire, which started in late July, burnt around 1,000 hectares of an environmental reserve in the Brazilian state of Rondônia—located on the border with Bolivia. This blaze, along with others in the region, created dense plumes of smoke that spread far across the state, endangering the health of people living in the area and the lives of animals, Painel Politico reported.

Two weeks ago, the state of Amazonas in the northwest of the country declared a state of emergency in response to an increase in the number of fires there, Euronews reported. Various fires have also been burning in the state of Mato Grosso, according to satellite imagery.

The scale of the recent fires in the Amazon region was highlighted by NASA researcher Santiago Gassó who said August 13 that they had created a smoke layer covering an area of approximately 1.2 million square miles.

(((((( Plus yesterday they burned a lot of forest in a close state here and the smoke reached São Paulo where I live , it became dark in plain day because of the fires ))) they are killing everybody here its a genocide

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ziq wrote

The article is paywalled, so just a note to mention it's quoted in the OP.

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