Venezuela offers its help to mitigate the ‘painful tragedy’ in the Amazon

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The Government of Nicolás Maduro expressed on Thursday, August 22, 2019 his "deep concern" about the fires that expand in the Amazon, with special emphasis on Brazil but also in Bolivia, and offered his "modest help" to mitigate the "painful" tragedy, immediately. "

"Venezuela expresses its deep concern about the gigantic and terrible fires that devastate the Amazon region in the territory of several countries in South America, with very serious impacts on the po[CENSORED]tion, ecosystems and biological diversity of the area," the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said in a release. In the text, he expressed his solidarity "with the indigenous and peasant communities and communities in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru", countries that share the Amazon with Venezuela, and called "to conscience in the economic and institutional actors that they make life "in these nations

The Maduro Government offered its "modest help" to mitigate the "painful tragedy, immediately", while stressing that his country "has always vindicated the rights of communities to the land, promoting economic and ecologically sustainable development" . According to the National Institute of Space Research (INPE) of Brazil, the outbreaks of fire in recent days have affected 68 protected areas as environmental or indigenous reserves, mainly in the Amazon.

 

 

The images of the fires that consume large regions of the Amazonian states of Brazil have caused worldwide alarm this week and became a trend in social networks with appeals to the authorities to try to extinguish them. The Amazon accounts for 25% of the surface of the continent and is the largest tropical forest in the world.

This area extends over 7.4 million square kilometers, which is equivalent to 5% of the total surface of the Earth and almost 25% of the American continent. 60% of that territory is on Brazilian soil.