[Right Wing Assault]

Great analysis of Amazon wildfires and wildfires around the world. Comparison of this year to fires in 2000. Several good images.

[Sioux-san]

Good report indeed - if you would like to flesh it out a bit with the politics of it, here is some feedback from a Brazilian:

https://www.henrymakow.com/2019/08/brazilian-readers-defend-bolsonaro-.html

[yesthatjallen]

For once they can't blame man made global warming (but they did try in the early reports).

This is the result of slash and burn farming.

[mom.mom]

It’s a rain forrest. Plants grow back...Quickly.

[poinq]

Forests burn. If they don’t burn they rot and burn later, bigger and faster.

[Fedora]

Do you happen to have the rest of the article? The link is giving me a 404 error, and Google and the Wayback Machine appear to have pulled the cached version.

[Hot Tabasco]

Prior to harvesting sugar cane, the farmers in Honduras set fire to their fields to burn off all the under growth and leaves from the cane stalks. The sugar companies then send in their "campesinos" with their machetes to harvest them.....It's all done by hand.

The fires also serve to rid the fields of rats and poisonous snakes....

[palmer]

Most of the pictures I saw were fields being burned for agricultural, not rainforest. But they should avoid burning more forest. It takes a long time to grow back. You can see some former rainforest on google street view: https://www.google.com/maps/@-9.5307196,-63.2541749,3a,60y,83.69h,90.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sas-XmE_k2ABLovyagQhKCg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1 Used to be dense jungle. Stays grassland for a while, the gets sporadically filled in. But it gets very dry in the dry season unlike the rainforest which stays more moist from the shade.

[TBP]

I blame environmentalists.