The Amazon is Deliberately Being Set On Fire Says Indigenous Woman

The Amazon Tropical Rainforest (TRF) is the largest expanse of woodland in the world, spanning a whopping nine countries across South America. It is nicknamed the ‘lungs of the world’ in lieu of it producing around 20% of the world's oxygen and also absorbing and storing large amounts of carbon dioxide. Furthermore, the Amazon is home to millions of species of flora and fauna, as well as some of the last indigenous tribes who live a completely isolated life.

The Amazon is an invaluable piece of nature that not only helps the entire world but also preserves some of the rarest and most beautiful things. There are also millions of undiscovered species, all of which hold to potential to be incredibly useful for things such a medicine. However, is hasn't stopped the most unspeakable things happening.

3/ Shown by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, "the fires have led to a clear spike in carbon monoxide emissions as well as planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions, posing a threat to human health and aggravating global warming." pic.twitter.com/HeYqgIYNFg

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 22, 2019

Arson in The Rainforest

An indigenous woman, from one of the last Amazonian tribes, has been recorded saying that people are setting the Amazon on fire, deliberately! There have been a number of fires across the Amazon recently, which is devastating news in itself. However, to think that someone would deliberately set fire to it is just shocking.

People are deliberately starting fires in the #AmazonRainforest to illegally deforest indigenous land for cattle ranching

Pataxó woman:
“These assholes came in and burned down [our reservation]... I want all of the media here to see this” pic.twitter.com/uGFp7RItHK

— Sunrise Movement 🌅 (@sunrisemvmt) August 21, 2019

The woman was recorded saying that they had fought to preserve their reservation for two years, only to see people come in a heartlessly set it alight. All for what? Money. Money is the driving force of such much evil, and that includes this. Clearing the rainforest by burning it to the ground would allow big corporations to repurpose it for farming and cattle ranching. However, in the process, they are destroying the lives of indigenous people, as well as the flora and fauna that surrounds them.