Les incendies en Amazonie, un signal d’alarme pour le monde entier

Friends of the Earth International reports a record increase in Amazon forest fires in 2019, particularly in Brazil, where deforestation rose by 278% in July 2019. The organization attributes this disaster to the neoliberal policies of President Jair Bolsonaro, who cut environmental budgets by 95% and weakened surveillance to benefit agribusiness and mining. The document highlights the critical role of the 900,000 indigenous people in protecting the region's 3 million species and calls on international bodies, including the European Union, to stop complicity through trade agreements like MERCOSUR.

• The Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) recorded a 83% increase in forest fires in 2019 compared to the same period the previous year, with 52.6% occurring in the Amazon rainforest. Between January and August 2019, over 74,000 fires were detected in Brazil, marking a record since records began in 2013.
• Deforestation in Brazil increased by 278% in July 2019 compared to July 2018. Over 60% of the 2019 fires were identified on private plots used by globalized agribusiness. The document attributes these trends to the neoliberal policies of President Jair Bolsonaro, who reduced the environmental sector's budget by 95% upon taking office in January 2019.
• The Amazon rainforest is the ancestral land of nearly 900,000 indigenous people and houses over 3 million plant and animal species. Indigenous peoples and local communities are described as more effective at nature conservation and preventing deforestation than official protected areas, yet they face persecution and the loss of their territories to illegal logging, soy cultivation, cattle ranching, and illegal mining (garimpeiros).

APA

admin (2019). Les incendies en Amazonie, un signal d’alarme pour le monde entier. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/fr/les-incendies-en-amazonie-un-signal-dalarme-pour-le-monde-entier/

Chicago

admin. Les incendies en Amazonie, un signal d’alarme pour le monde entier. Friends of the Earth International, 2019. https://www.foei.org/fr/les-incendies-en-amazonie-un-signal-dalarme-pour-le-monde-entier/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{admin2019les, author = {admin}, title = {{Les incendies en Amazonie, un signal d’alarme pour le monde entier}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2019}, month = sep, url = {https://www.foei.org/fr/les-incendies-en-amazonie-un-signal-dalarme-pour-le-monde-entier/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }