Environmental activists say the lure of such riches has encouraged illegal miners like Franchinis, adding to the growing deforestation in the region

Illegal miners dig for gold in Brazil | Amazon tropical rainforests | South America

Fires in Brazil's Amazon for the month of August hit a nine-year high in 2019 and this month so far looks even worse.

Amazon rainforest continues to burn | Aerial video reveals scale of damage | Brazil

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday angrily denied the existence of fires in the Amazon rainforest, calling it a lie.

Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro calls Amazon fires a lie

Massive fires have spread throughout the Amazon rainforest and into different countries across Latin America.

August witnesses an unprecedented surge in Amazon fires | Brazil Rainforests | WION

Illegal gold mining activity has risen sharply over the last five years in Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami reservation in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

Brazil gold rush: Illegal mining threatens Amazon tropical rainforests

World's largest rainforest losing its ability to absorb carbon: Study

WION Edit: Amazon Fires - Challenge to India and Developing World

Amazon Forest Fires: A Man-Made Crisis That Threatens To Spiral Out Of Control.

WION Gravitas: Why is the Amazon forest burning?

The forest fires in amazon rainforests is an environmental crisis of unprecedented proportions.

WION Gravitas: Amazon rainforests are on fire!

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Earth Alliance commits $5 million to Amazon rainforest fires

Amazon rainforests are burning and there is a lot of politics over it. Watch video to know more.

Amazon rainforests are burning and there is a lot of politics over it

he Amazon rainforest is being ravaged by flames. Soot from thousands of wildfires has blackened skies across Brazil, and the smoke is even visible from space.

Amazon rainforests are on fire; Destroying the lungs of the Earth

There are no lights in sight but the night sky glows a dusky yellow, for the Amazon, is burning. Yes, the Amazon rainforests, the biome that sprawls over 7,000,000 square kilometers of the South American basin and generates more than 20% of the world's oxygen, is on fire, and the Western media is frighteningly apathetic about it.

Your Story: Why the Amazon is being set ablaze; All you need to know

UN chief calls for protection of Amazon rainforest; says can't afford more damage to source of oxygen

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