The Amazon fire has been described as a "continental disaster" with "global impact"

The director of climate change and policies of the WWF in Paraguay, Oscar Rodas, today described the jungles of the Brazilian Amazon as a "continental disaster" and said that this incident " will have a global impact. "

The "fire" has spread to part of the Paraguayan Chaco and the Santa Cruz de la Sierra region, Bolivia, to the southern mainland, and it is very difficult to control it, "said the official. Paraguay in a statement to FM Spaces, of Formosa.

Fires in the Amazon, which began on August 10, affected more than 70,000 hectares of the Brazilian jungle and spread to parts of Paraguayan Chaco, part of Bolivia, Uruguay and Peru.

The director of WWF Paraguay, responsible for climate change and policies, said that "the great fire, which is moving the world and especially the environmentalists for its devastating effects, is taking place because of climate change caused by the hands of the world. Man and the rainy season – drought. "

He also said "that the problem will notoriously damage the environment, forests and jungle, and attack the rich wildlife of the Amazon that is the lungs of the world".

Rhodes added that black clouds of fire, which were beginning to touch northern Argentina, were causing "lung health problems and allergies".