After loggers extract wood, speculators burn the remaining vegetation to clear it in hopes of selling the land to farmers and ranchers or simply invade it with no rights.
Fires in the Amazon are often set on purpose to clearland. After loggers extract wood, speculators burn the remaining vegetation to clear it in hopes of selling the land to farmers and ranchers or simply invade it with no rights. In mid-August of this year, 68 fires were registered in indigenous territories and conservation areas, the majority in the Amazon. Further, the humid forests of the Amazon have no adaptation to fire and suffer immense damage. Almost all fires in humid forests are started by people.