news report on amazon forest is on fire in short
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There are still Amazon fires - though not as many
When the burning of the Amazon was at its peak in August, there were thousands of individual fires, almost three times as many that month - 30,901 - compared with the same period last year.
What caused this? Forest fires do happen in the Amazon during the dry season between July and October. They can be caused by naturally occurring events, like lightning strikes, but this year most are thought to have been started by farmers and loggers clearing land for crops or grazing.
This matters because the Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world and a vital carbon store that slows down the pace of global warming.
Read BBC Brasil's stories on the Amazon in Portuguese
Amazon: The lungs of the planet
How bad were the Amazon fires?
The world reacted with fury to the fires - there were protests in dozens of cities, threats of financial penalties, and broad condemnation ofBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policies .
In late August, Mr Bolsonaro deployed the army to the Amazon and ordered a 60-day ban on setting fires to clear land there. The measures had an effect - the number of fires in the Amazon dropped by a third between August and September. The pace has slowed even more this month, and is likely to do so even more now that annual rains have started