Editing Amazon rainforest (section)

===2019 fires===
{{main|2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires}}
There were 72,843 fires in Brazil in 2019, with more than half within the Amazon region.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49415973 |title='Record number of fires' in Brazilian rainforest |date=August 21, 2019 |access-date=August 21, 2019 |work=[[BBC News Online]] |publisher=[[BBC Online]] |agency=[[BBC]] |archive-date=August 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822055410/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49415973 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/americas/amazon-rainforest-fire-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html |title=Brazil's Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate |work=[[CNN]] |first1=Jessie |last1=Yeung |first2=Abel |last2=Alvarado |access-date=August 21, 2019 |date=August 21, 2019 |publisher=[[Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.]] |archive-date=August 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814134335/https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/americas/amazon-rainforest-fire-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-wildfire-parts-of-amazon-rainforest-on-fire-smoke-seen-from-space-2019-08-20/ |title=Parts of the Amazon rainforest are on fire – and smoke can be spotted from space |work=[[cbsnews.com]] |access-date=August 21, 2019 |first=Danielle |last=Garrand |date=August 20, 2019 |publisher=[[CBS Interactive Inc.]] |archive-date=August 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827103001/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-wildfire-parts-of-amazon-rainforest-on-fire-smoke-seen-from-space-2019-08-20/ |url-status=live }}</ref>  In August 2019 there were a record number of fires.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/08/21/amazon-rainforest-fires-record-rate.html |title=Record-breaking number of fires burn in Brazil's Amazon |date=August 21, 2019 |access-date=August 21, 2019 |work=[[CNBC]] |publisher=[[NBCUniversal]] |archive-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725050554/https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/08/21/amazon-rainforest-fires-record-rate.html |url-status=live }}</ref>  [[Deforestation in Brazil|Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon]] rose more than 88% in June 2019 compared with the same month in 2018.<ref>{{cite news |title=Brazil registers huge spike in Amazon deforestation |url=https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-registers-huge-spike-in-amazon-deforestation/a-49462773 |work=Deutsche Welle |date=July 3, 2019 |access-date=August 22, 2019 |archive-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725065044/https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-registers-huge-spike-in-amazon-deforestation/a-49462773 |url-status=live }}</ref>

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File:DeforestationinBrazil2.jpg|NASA satellite observation of deforestation in the Mato Grosso state of Brazil. The transformation from forest to farm is evident by the paler square shaped areas under development.
File:Fires and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier, Rondonia, Brazil - August 12, 2007.jpg|Fires and deforestation in the state of [[Rondônia]]
File:Fires and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier, Rondonia, Brazil - September 30, 2007.jpg|One consequence of forest clearing in the Amazon: thick smoke that hangs over the forest
File:Deforestation of Rainforest.jpg|Impact of deforestation on natural habitat of trees
</gallery>The increased area of fire-impacted forest coincided with a relaxation of environmental regulations from the Brazilian government. Notably, before those regulations were put in place in 2008 the fire-impacted area was also larger compared to the regulation period of 2009–2018. As these fire continue to move closer to the heart of the Amazon basin, their impact on biodiversity will only increase in scale, as the cumulative fire-impacted area is correlated with the number of species impacted.<ref name="Feng-2021" />{{clear}}