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SAO PAOLO. KAZINFORM In the first two months of this year, the Amazon biome concentrated 90 percent of the areas with fires. In all, 487 thousand hectares have been affected, according to a report released Monday (Mar. 13) by Fire Monitor, an initiative of the Annual Mapping Project of Land Use and Cover in Brazil (MapBiomas), in partnership with the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM). In the first two months of 2022, the area affected by fires totaled 654 thousand hectares.

According to a report issued Monday by the Fire Monitor, an initiative of the Annual Mapping Project of Land Use and Land Cover in Brazil (MapBiomas) in partnership with the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), the Amazon biome concentrated 90% of its areas with fires, representing 487,000 hectares. In the first two months of 2022, the area totaled 654,000 hectares. In the country's six biomes - Amazonia, Caatinga, Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, Pampa, and Pantanal - there were fires over 536,000 hectares.