August 30, 2019
By Amanda Woods

Brazil’s government is banning most legal fires, (click here) used for land-clearing, for at least 60 days in the wake of the massive blazes that ravaged the Amazon rainforest, according to a new report.

An official decree published Thursday prohibited the fires, typically set during the country’s dry season, Fox News reported.

Currently, farmers and others are allowed to set some fires as long as they have licenses from environmental authorities, the country’s forest code states.

This year, however, there’s been a 77 percent uptick in fires compared to the same period last year — a total of 83,000 blazes, the network reported, citing data from the National Institute for Space Research....