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FOUND: No more fires demand fed up amazon residents - What They Never Told You

Number of fires detected per year in the Brazilian Amazon since 1998 (Credit: AFP)

Giovana Serrao was not home when a fire lit in a neighboring agricultural field got out of control and destroyed her acai palms on the island of Marajo in the Brazilian Amazon.

Paulinho dos Santos remembers the dark nights in November when he would leap out of bed to use buckets of water to douse flames threatening his farm.

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