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A top global forestry management body has said that the fires tearing through the Amazon represent a tipping point for the health of the rainforest and urged the world to do more to save the trees.
Executive Director of the International Tropical Timber Organisation, Gerhard Dieterle told a news agency that the situation in the Amazon is very urgent.
He said, this might affect the integrity of the Amazon as a whole, because if the forest fires spread, the grasslands become more prone to forest fires.
He said, many experts fear it may be a tipping point for the rainforest, as the latest figures show a total of more than 82,000 fires blazing in Brazil. More than half of the fires are in the massive Amazon basin.