Huge fires ravage the Amazon again as rainforest burns on terrifying scale

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Fire ravages the Amazon again, burning the planet’s biggest rainforest on a terrifying scale even before the region’s dry season kicks in.

It means that 1,900 sq miles - more than half a million football pitches - of rainforest have already been reduced to ash so far this year alone, even before the dry season starts this month.

As firefighters hold back the blaze, a baby armadillo scrambles towards them, its parents having perished. But it is too late to save many of the jungle’s other creatures.

The charred bodies of several huge pythons lie nearby, one with its mouth wide open. Most fires are set by farmers and cattle ranchers to clear land for pasture, or by illegal loggers and miners to drive indigenous people from protected