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Threat to the Amazon rainforest needs an urgent response

Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 7 a.m.

b'A record number of fires \\u2013 many intentionally set \\u2013 swept through the Amazon rainforest in the summer of 2019, reducing large chunks of the world\'s largest tropical rainforest to piles of ash. How has the international community responded to protect this precious \'global good\'? And what are the plans to ensure that this ecological disaster isn\'t repeated?
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Source: \\xa9 European Union - EP'