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AERIAL SHOTS of fires in the Brazilian Amazon as the rainforest has recorded more than 42,000 forest fires from January 1 to August 19, according to the INPE, the worst number in nearly two decades. IMAGES
The lights go out at Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro for Earth Hour, with this year's event highlighting the link between the destruction of nature and increasing outbreaks of diseases like Covid-19. IMAGES
People protest in a Carrefour in Rio de Janeiro, asking for the chain to close the supermarket down after the death of a black man beaten by white security guards at another supermarket run by the French group Carrefour. IMAGES
Dozens of members of Brazil's Kayapo indigenous community block a major trans-Amazonian road to protest against the lack of support given by Jair Bolsonaro's government to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and demand that deforestation be brought to an end. IMAGES
Climate change activists with the Extinction Rebellion group protest outside the Brazilian embassy in London to denounce the inaction of Jair Bolsonaro's government on Amazon deforestation and on fighting the fires ravaging the rainforest for weeks. Official figures show nearly 73,000 forest fires were recorded in Brazil in the first eight months of the year -- the highest number for any year since 2013. Most were in the Amazon. IMAGES
Christ the Redeemer, the emblematic monument of Rio de Janeiro, plunges into darkness for an hour on Saturday as part of a global campaign to raise awareness about climate change and its impact on the planet's vanishing plant and animal life. IMAGES.
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