September 21, 2021
10:09
Marcela Leiros – from Cenarium
MANAUS – Acre has already registered more active hot spots in September 2021 than in the same period last year. From day 1 to Sunday, 19, of this month, the state recorded 2,699 points of fires identified by the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), against 2,613 focuses in 2020. The survey was made this Monday, 20, and shows the advance of fire in the Amazon, which has been breaking records.
The difference between the periods is 86 hot spots. Comparing the days of the month this year, the date when the Amazon biome most caught fire in Acre was September 4th, with 577 fires registered by Inpe. In 2020, it was the 8th, with 503 focuses. (See the table below)
In the comparison of the last three September, the amount of fires in the period has not yet surpassed 2019 or 2020, but it is a matter of time for these ten days to collaborate to surpass the records. In September 2019, there were 2,977 hotspots, and last year there were 3,357, in the time period from the 1st to the 30th.
Records in Amazon
Data released on September 1st by Inpe’s monitoring system showed that in August, fire in the Amazon registered the alarming number of 28,060 hotspots. It was the third highest rate for the month since 2010, second only to 2019 and 2020.
The high followed even with Decree No. 10,735, which had been in effect since June 29, prohibiting the use of fire, so all the fires recorded in August were illegal.
Amazonas, for the first time in the month of August since 2000, concentrated the highest number of fires. There were 8,588, 30% of the total, followed by Pará (28%) and Rondônia (15%). The numbers reflect the worrying escalation of deforestation in the southern region of Amazonas, which had already been identified by monitoring systems.
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