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Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES
Firefighters combat wildfires in Brazil's Mato Grosso, an transition region between the Cerrado - tropical savanna - biome and the Amazon rainforest. IMAGES
Firefighters and police use hoses and rakes in an attempt to put out a fire in Nemocon, 60 kilometers north of Colombia's capital Bogota. The South American country has appealed for international aid as it continues to battle dozens of forest fires burning vast swathes of land and encroaching on homes in the capital. IMAGES
Russia's forest service says that six hard-to-reach forest fires were extinguished in the Krasnoyarsk region, with the estimated area of 4,731 hectares covered by fire. The operation involved 164 people and three units of ground equipment. An state of emergency has been declared throughout the Krasnoyarsk region. IMAGES
Camata, Feb 22 (EFE).- Hundreds on Saturday participated in the Forest Carnival, one of the most traditional carnivals in Brazil's Amazonian community of Juaba. Several thousand kilometers from the well-known festivals of Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Recife or Sao Paulo, an exotic carnival makes its way into the saturated Brazilian calendar, that of Cameta, where hundreds of participants navigate the waters of the Tocantins River, located in the middle of the Amazon region.The colorful costumes and the huge and eye-catching masks flooded Cameta, a small municipality of just over 100,000 inhabitants of the state of Para (north) and one of the oldest in the Brazilian Amazon. (Camera: RAIMUNDO PACCO). SHOT LIST: PEOPLE PARTICIPAT IN THE FOREST CARNIVAL IN THE COMMUNITY OF JUABA, CITY OF CAMETA, STATE OF PARA, BRAZIL.
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