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Environmental organizations and researchers say the wildfires blazing in the Brazilian rainforest were. However fires in the Amazon Basin in the last two decades have been driven primarily by two recent and related phenomena. 2019 Amazon Rainforest Wildfires Wikipedia After a significant reduction in forest clearing in the Brazilian Amazon from 2004 to 2012 both deforestation and fires are on the rise. Amazon rainforest wildfires . In 2020 deforestation fires were concentrated in rural areas in Brazil along transportation corridors in the rainforest primarily in the states of Pará Amazonas and Rondônia. In the map above dark gray depicts the location of forests. OVERVIEW The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world. Additionally the people primarily affected are Indigenous communities of the rainforest who are a very vulnerable population group. The Amazon rainforesthome to one in 10 species on Earthis on fireAs of last week 9000 wildfires were raging simul