 It is really bad in the Amazon and it's bad in other environmental areas, in other ecological systems of Brazil, the Pantanal wetlands and the Cerrado. It's been very dry and the dry season should be starting now in that part of Brazil, the west and the north of Brazil, but it started early. According to the government, that's to do with global warming, but mainly the El Nino weather phenomenon that made the dry season come earlier.