There have been more than 72,000 fire outbreaks in the country so far this year, of which half have occurred in the Amazon. This is an 84% increase on the same period in 2018, according to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research.

While there’s no denying that awareness of this ecological crisis has grown astronomically over the last couple of weeks, there is still a lack of urgency from public officials to take real, tangible action.

This weekend, leaders of the G7 countries offered $20m (£16m), a sum which environmental campaigners have called “chump change,” to aid the fight against the fires, but a senior Brazilian official rejected the donation. Meanwhile, Brazilian president Jair Bolsanaro criticised the move as having a “colonialist mentality”.

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