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Rio de Janeiro, Oct 9 (EFE).- A statue of the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, emulating Nero, the emperor who saw Rome burn while playing his lyre, was placed by the Greenpeace organization in a devastated area of ??the Pantanal.
Animal carcasses litter the surroundings of the Transpantaneira road, which crosses the Pantanal in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, after raging fires consumed part of the world's largest tropical wetland. IMAGES
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 work at the site of a blaze in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands, where flames are reaching the major road crossing the area. IMAGES
Images of trash on fire in the streets of Rio de Janeiro as suspected paramilitary militia members torched 35 buses in the city after one of their leaders was killed in a police operation. IMAGES