Brazil saw record forest fires from January to April
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Rio De Janeiro (AFP) May 2, 2024
Brazil saw a record 17,182 forest fires from January to April this year, according to satellite images from the Brazilian Institute of Space Research (INPE) released Thursday, more than half of them in the Amazon region. The figure represented an 81 percent increase from the same period last year, and was the most forest fires recorded for this period in Brazil since data collection started