
(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 15, 2020 smoke rises from an illegally lit fire in Amazon rainforest reserve, south of Novo Progresso in Para state, Brazil. – The number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon last month was the second-highest in a decade for August, nearing the crisis levels that unleashed a flood of international condemnation last year, official figures showed on September 1, 2020. (Photo by CARL DE SOUZA / AFP)