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Joined by mora a finance campaign director for amazon watch, which is an advocacy group trying to protect the rain forest. let me start with just the sort of top line, a group that works to protect the amazon. why are these fires happening? why is it so bad this year? >> well, first of all, thanks so much for having me and for bringing this really important issue to your audience's attention. these fires actually appear to have been started by farmers who farm in areas of previously deforested amazon. they apparently started these fires both to clear more land for agra business but also as a

Joined by mora a finance campaign director for amazon watch, which is an advocacy group trying to protect the rain forest. let me start with just the sort of top line, a group that works to protect the amazon. why are these fires happening? why is it so bad this year? >> well, first of all, thanks so much for having me and for bringing this really important issue to your audience's attention. these fires actually appear to have been started by farmers who farm in areas of previously deforested amazon. they apparently started these fires both to clear more land for agra business but also as a s...