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Canada will allocate a tanker and 15 million dollars to quell forest fires in the region of the Amazoniadeclared the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, at the end of the G7 summit in the French city of Biarritz
The Canadian Prime Minister said at a press conference: "We can pretend that the situation in the Amazon is simply part of the natural cycle, but that is not exactly what is happening," he said.
"The bill of human activity and extreme weather conditions on our communities, environment, health and our world, will continue to increase unless we take decisive action in the framework of the fight against climate change," said Trudeau, de agreement with the Russian news service Sputnik.
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This aid, said Trudeau, is not part of the one agreed upon at the summit of the Group of Seven, but adds to that committed by the leaders gathered in Biarritz, which includes $ 20 million in emergency aid and reforestation.
According to data from Space Research Institute of Brazil (INPE), so far this year, more than 75 thousand sources of fire were detected in the Amazonia Fires have increased 85 percent more than the same period in 2018.
On August 22 the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) urged the governments of the Amazon countries, first of all Brazil Y Bolivia, and the entire international community to "take serious measures to save the lungs of the world."
Although fires are common in the amazon during the dry season, like the current one, a good part of them have been produced by farmers and have dispersed strongly as a result of deforestation, until reaching uninhabited areas.
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