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thousands of experts will meet in rwanda to exchange ideas and work out how to confront one of the world's most serious else challenges special coverage on al-jazeera. liz van. kagame on the aid. the n.t. . and. the one time. just 3 days. in august the world watched in horror as images like this commander brazil a flames destroying vast parts of the amazon the world's largest rain forest. there have been over $80000.00 fires in brazil already this year and nearly 30 percent

increase from the same period last year. the fires are part of a worsening trend in brazil the rise of deforestation and this comes as the country's president to you both so narrow has weakened environmental protections we're driving through a part of the amazon that's designated as national park and just out the window there's a large fire with its white smoke covering the entire area drifting over the highway and so this is just one of the many fires that have been set to illegally clear the rainforest. in brazil is leaving an environmental crisis now in the amazon. but there is have they made as soon that i don't think people realize which is that violence that comes with that these trucks. that is a human rights tragedy behind the environmental child. is that there was 16. and no major so that if. it's not just trees that are being cut in brazil it's

lives of people on the front line trying to stop deforestation. is that there were . 11 they found effin big to sit on $11.00 via the. salt mines travels to brazil to investigate what's at the heart of the amazon burning. these are images from a day that's become notorious in brazil. august 10th. it's now known as the day of fire. what did this area look like. a lot of these forces going briefing. it took place in the state of the northern brazil. the signs are still here 2

months later visible in the burnt earth. a small farmer here arrived home to see the hills around her farm engulfed in flames. back and forward. for. 31 fires were set just in the former settled and torchy lives that one day. and in the area around here there are over $100.00 fires. a. month that stays and. jakob on. what the day of fire illustrates about what's happening in brazil is that most of these fires are not natural. or manmade deliberately set to clear land for cattle and often illegal

logging. justice in jerks who moved a keel so long. why did people want you to spread the word about the danish address you put on as a journalist in the town of nova progresso where the fires were centered days before the fire he wrote an article saying that local ranchers replanning a series of coordinated fires for august 10th scammell. was like this all these. he says that the people who set the fires also had another objective. but he knew hillman she.

was. going to school. the day a fire took place as the world's eyes turned to brazil and international outrage reached its peak over the fires here. leaders like french president a manual mccrone said president both sinatra needed to do more to protect the amazon considered a bulwark against rising temperatures and climate change. but both are now dismissed european leaders concerns saying they shouldn't interfere and without any evidence blamed foreign n.g.o.s. force you to assume that what this said is the world is looking to split a deal could have a greater so the problem was probably as you. eventually the government was forced to respond deploying the army across the amazon to combat the fires at the end of august. in nova progresso the presence of federal forces along with an investigation into the day of fire raise tensions and also for force.

is there playing he. didn't get to you to keep you stuck with us. flyers like this were distributed on social media and around town saying that it does say it was responsible for the attention brought to nova progresso or you're afraid when you saw this. going to me or the christmas song when he was. he was forced to leave town for nearly a month only recently returned to respond to him. at this you told us he isn't confident authorities will be able to catch the main people behind that they have fired. him least so many americans are a little out of his own today that would lead to anarchy just because quasi going to jail as for that is ourself. even if officials don't catch the organizers the

message the perpetrators want to send is clear it is a congenital it was a lot of fluff was it a walk was a bucket if possible bombs one of them a former mines spouse was an apple was just when you watch it is. deforestation was on the rise even before bolton are came to office. especially in areas like this of cattle ranching. but also illegal logging and mining. but the fires in brazil this year seem to confirm the worst fears of bolton are as critics that the new president would worsen deforestation rather than combat it. also never was elected on the far right platform of opening up the amazon for development by easing environmental restrictions. will have it either got what it got to be limited set of people to work all the of it what do

you do you might say well they will build up the whole they didn't want to be what we simply do. yes now face a back up. under both so narrow deforestation is at its highest point in a decade with an area 10 times the size. new york city destroyed through october this year. and in august there was an average of a 1000 fires every day. the messes that arrive on the ground if that's now everything is possible and now we can't keep up a claim to keep on the shore scene because it will be forgiven. criminal networks are the heart of the 4 station in the amazon were valuable trees are cut illegally for temporary. later fires are set to clear the land so it can be sold often with fake land titles and used for cattle or soil to key exports as well as mining. even with deforestation rising

all tomorrow has weakened the main federal environmental agency slashing its budget . and not even a year into his presidency fines for environmental crimes have gone down by nearly 30 percent from last year. we want to understand how bold sonars policies and budget cuts have impacted so we accompanied a team of agents on a field operation in the state of pa and brazil's north. using satellite data they're hoping to confirm locations of illegal logging and try to find out who's behind. the wheel. at one point we came across a house that looks like it was recently occupied or logs were still burning.

well this is like the old as i love this is. just a bit further down the road there were more signs loggers have been here. gushed i needed. because of. the about the agent told us that this took place maybe today or yesterday and that this tree customary tree is probably over 70 years old and this is a protected tree that's not supposed to be deforested. as we drove along it felt like we were always one step behind the illegal loggers. coming across one patch after another of scorched land. we couldn't interview any of the agents we accompanied because environmental ministry wouldn't allow them to speak. but we did find one agent who was not a part of this operation who was willing to speak with us about what's happening at obama under bolton are all. about what you can figure out to march to free speech

or more mean you were concealing his identity because he's not authorized to speak he told us that operations like the one we went on have become increasingly rare under golson r.-o. or because you have a court and it's called me. the most of these evils are east where you will cause them to hold so much i mean you saw. was a poor woman to me i'm afraid with me and work. is absolutely you. know up here he lives across a year. he also told us that their job has become harder due to restrictions on destroying the equipment used by illegal loggers and miners judged me so we could commute being is really the story arc up here you know that you got here it was somebody you know. argues back up and some. people need to do some

go so i've been taking up the law crossing the bridge to soft use work which a lot of them did invited me. to show chicago. but you know. rob was in this. one effect of the weakening of brazil's environmental agency has been that communities in the amazon are increasingly on their own to protect their land. for indigenous communities this has been coupled with moves by president bill tomorrow to try and open up their territories for agriculture on mining. we met 2 leaders from the other indigenous communities to be. there taking us to see where illegal loggers have entered their territory recently . most are not so new but as of this.

asa was michael meso my mandate is i can't go meso me so my homeland they call my son. in the way diane. thank. you mandated. and i see no in that only. fulfilled and my daughter born. in montana. the past we walked along in the dense forest was one cut and plowed through by loggers. healed me saying to us. on the up this so. you know what us on doesn't. it don't do venus is just that they made the democracy and. the 3 day is. via on down the mob always me as. this in my bit of.

and i saw no. police found out how mad he didn't keep my aunt then she chewed off all that into. phase. and not. before both sonar was elected they had set up a village on the border of their territory to try and stop criminals from coming in but in the past year it's become harder and illegal loggers have managed to cut and burn deeper and deeper into their lands encroaching on the community. later another of our leader touchy joined us in the areas we went to with him not only did we see where the trees had been cut and taken but that loggers were already

taking the trees apart right in the forest. jam one thing and. i say. it is. they say they say. officials refer to illegal groups that harvest this tree as pay mafias. deeper into their territory it's one patch after another of wood cut and torn away by loggers to be sold as part of the timber trade. like each year. or 4 to have that one time when so much data in the game can be found. with a lack of response from the government they've started confronting the loggers to

try and stop them. why lack of. a no. go vendor was unless you know you are now your boss and not in the follow. that they had you know. but confronting illegal loggers comes with risks. a mass energy. man must see his kind didn't you but. the man did you cast them and told that they're mad men dissin 95 and 40 scanty. that they went through. the night so many of even that kill them. not nice. down. time. but i think that's

a fancy. we made repeated requests to the ministry of environment for an interview but received no response. the local people. have stepped up their defense of the forest because of the lack of state their work is extremely valuable especially now as you do asian when you have weakening over a year season they don't have enough people. but that work by local residents in the us peoples on all there are some farmers. at risk a race called threats intimidation violence and even killings by criminal networks that are intent on destroying the forests for profit. brazil is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a land offender because of the power of criminal networks deforesting the land. 'd

as illegal logging and mining have gotten worse here and. many a model has tried to stop it by reporting it to officials but that comes with risks . 3 farmers who tried to report illegal logging here were killed last year. bundled bad and feel cooked i. found they are you physically. in mail don't you know and then you. ask them less and less badly you need to move. the threats were made particularly clear last year when she tried to report the burning of 2000 of her banana trees to a bamma. not. been my day to. keep the only bomb and then this young lady. don't get on if we don't need

the attic ceiling why should. the threats have been stopped since then. my has. to avoid least for you'll. need the spammy. gotta. get up and beth and the. fun media. with the killings last year she knows these aren't idle threats. my shit if you. don't think.

it's not just maria's settlement. in the past decade over 300 people have been killed across the brazilian amazon over land conflicts standing up to powerful interests these are very specific killings instead killing to the person always standing up and defending the forest back elian sends a message to everybody in the community that they you do anything that's going to happen to you so they impact of the killings is you know enormous. or you know. this woman knows the costs of trying to fight against you for station 2 well. her husband a small farmer disappeared last year after he confronted a local rancher who was taking trees from his land were concealing her identity at her request because of her fear of being targeted by the people who went after her

husband what happened with your husband how did this all begin or daily saw you. i for procedures. of assume i. was your husband intending to report illegal logging to the authorities before he disappeared. look as though he . was from the. she told us the no one's been held accountable for her husband's disappearance do you know if your husband is that our lives they've been in the. people who. despite the risks why was it important for your husband to report what was happening. or can you just give you

my going to be. simple to separate hop by that. but. it was obviously. with no body to bury all she and her family can do is hope and wait for justice but there's a high rate of impunity here and murders are rarely solved and federal prosecutors say part of the problem is the power criminal networks have economically and over local officials and that is because most of them was a killing for us on. both of them from us as level as we won't group to pursue this as a comparable some of these images in which look. yes jealous of each of us at us home. but it was. almost that they must sell. my street to the poor dear just started to heal me. e q

e s is that because that you. she was the killer it was a day this was. probably me. look bad this last place was something that is. what did the land name to your husband. in signing our demise disappear. we saw you in there frequent cover when you. have you gone back to the land since your husband disappeared no. you want me to be present. at the situation continues along this path do you think the rate of violence could get worse if it isn't seen as child process joe manchin us of illness

is to. sampson the self. quoting buddha a prop is the stance of the food each. going to insist. upon me his sons my scripts marches ones or masses which just. as the fires continued in brazil also narrow took the stage at the u.n. general assembly in september defending his response to the crisis they are not no with stuff still there for us throughout the evening course will be the feel of full coverage is major loss i mean it's a major. and took aim at other countries saying the amazon was presumes to use violence death as philosophers mortal bodies easier judge of the embark corners me just as the media if you both told you former there is this pay towards the. goal in your earliest. version not a kill you know that my thought get out our north us

a bit and here. the president why have you weakened over certain protection and the imus on we made repeated requests to present both scenarios office for an interview but were told he was unavailable there is no doubt. that president obama's own belongs to brazil and the brazilians you know i don't think anybody's putting that into question. but at the end of the day the people who are suffering most we did the structure of the amazon are brazilians. and yes sad. handled. for don't. you know that is in the back you look down the.

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