Global concerns surge over Amazon wildfires

Environmentalists fear fires may damage ecology as forests span 5.5m square km

Nations along the Amazon River are not only battling huge blazes in the forests but also fighting the perception that development policies are responsible for the fires that environmentalists fear may damage the rainforest and continental ecology.

The eight-month-old government of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has accepted some troops and firefighting assistance from some nations, although he is equivocating on whether to accept financial aid from the G7 bloc of countries.