The Covid-19 pandemic isn’t stopping the exploitation of the Amazon – quite the contrary. Wildfire season has begun in the Amazon rainforest and the combination of seasonal respiratory diseases caused by smoke, the spread of Covid-19, and a nearly collapsed health system in Northern Brazil are likely to cause a vertiginous rise of fatalities.
While the coronavirus pandemic seemed to be the only event the world was talking about, from January to April 2020 Amazonian indigenous people lost the equivalent of 1,865 soccer fields of land due to deforestation.
