Over 2,500 major fires occurred across the Amazon in 2020; 8% in Bolivia. In the Bolivian Amazon, we detected 205 major fires. The vast majority (88%) burned in Amazonian savanna and dry forest ecosystems. Notably, a quarter of these fires burned within protected areas.” The vast majority of the major fires in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru “were likely human-caused and illegal, in violation of governmental fire management regulations and moratoriums.” “In the Bolivian Amazon, both 2019 and 2020 had in common the extensive burning of Amazon savannas and dry forests.”
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