After last year’s severe drought led to hundreds of thousands of acres burning, 2025 has brought much better news. Thanks to a “more intense and sustained rainy season” and more careful action by local communities and farmers, fewer fires have broken out in the rainforest this year compared to the previous year.

The data comes from MapBiomas, a satellite-based program launched after the widespread fires of 2019. Additionally, it’s not just the Amazon that’s doing better as fire-affected areas across all of Brazil have dropped by 54 per cent.

The decrease in Amazon fires helps preserve one of Earth’s most important carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots. It also shows that natural factors combined with human behaviour can produce tangible results – even after recent challenging fire seasons.

This good news comes just ahead of the COP30 UN Climate Conference, which will be held in the Amazon city of Belém. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has committed to ending Amazon deforestation by 2030 will be highlighting this progress at the event.

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