Daily fires in the Amazon on NASA satellite imagery

The government of Brazil launched this Sunday the operation to calm the flames using two plans Hercules while the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, has indicated that tanker aircraft are already fully utilized Boeing SuperTanker 747-400.

Also from Paraguay reported that 418 new sources of fire danger had been detected by satellite imagery, which corresponds to the incineration of stubble on farms, while emergency teams are still working to protect the Pantbad region (north), where 39,000 hectares of vegetation were burned this week.

The National University of Asunción (UNA) noted that 230 of these fires correspond to grbadland burning in the western region, while 188 others were located in the east of the country, reported EFE.

Making bonfires is a common practice, which takes place during the second half of August as part of the change of territory for agricultural production, before the arrival of the rainy season.

Precisely, an uncontrolled burning of thatch, with 10 big bonfires on a farm of Black Bay (Department of Upper Paraguay), resulted in one of the fires that affected the Paraguayan Pantbad this week.

In addition to detecting sources of fire danger, satellite images also reduced the orange alert in five northern departments of the country, which account for almost half of Paraguayan territory.