translated from Spanish: Greenpeace warns of Amazon fire: “It’s like 11 Torres del Paine National Parks have burned down”

According to the latest data, the devastation in the Amazon resulting from fires has been enormous, as disclosed by the National Institute of Space Research (INPE).
According to his information, the fire, during August alone, has razed 2.5 million hectares.
After this information was known, from Greenpeace they alerted the situation and put it in a Chilean context, so that the public understood the magnitude of the catastrophe: “In just one month an area equivalent to 11 Torres del Paine National Parks was destroyed. The situation remains alarming and it is the task of the Brazilian government to make all efforts available to the Amazon, its communities and the species that inhabit it,” said Hernán Giardini, coordinator of the Greenpeace Andean Forests campaign.
“The figures confirm the magnitude of the catastrophe. While the journalistic versions spoke of 700,000 hectares, the official figures have more than tripled,” he added.
The reports make it clear that, during last August, the Amazon burned four times as many as in August 2018. “It’s one of the worst wildfires of the past time, a tragedy we can’t afford in the midst of a global climate crisis. In this context, there is a huge responsibility of companies committed to advancing the agricultural and soybean frontiers,” Giardini warned.
“Forest fires and climate change operate in a vicious cycle: as the number of fires increases, so do greenhouse gas emissions, increasing the overall temperature of the planet and the occurrence of climate events extremes, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, major droughts, floods, rising sea levels, and melting glaciers,” the spokesman ended.

Original source in Spanish