From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. This is The Daily.

Today, more than 26,000 fires have been recorded inside the Amazon rainforest in August alone,

triggering global calls for action. So why is Brazil's government telling the rest of the world

to mind its own business? It's Wednesday, August 28.

Through the prism of Twitter or Facebook, I think a lot of people last week,

understandably engaged in this communal panic about the fate of the world's largest rainforest.

Ernesto Londonio covers Brazil for the times.

Urgent, please, to save the rainforest as the Amazon burns.

Forest fires are raging in the rainforest. There have been nearly

73,000 fires this year already, a more than 80% increase compared to last year.

With international protests, the world is demanding action.

The French President Emmanuel Macron has described the fires as an international emergency.

You were seeing presidents, you were seeing celebrities.

An actor Leonardo DiCaprio working to help combat the wildfires in the Amazon rainforest.

You were seeing these really alarming posts and these photographs of patches of the rainforest on fire.

The smoke is traveling far and wide. I think many people understandably were left with the impression

that within a few days, the Amazon was going to be reduced to a pile of ashes.

The Amazon rainforest, the so-called lungs of the world, are now filling with smoke.

I think in many people's minds, there was a clear villain in all of this.

Directly blaming the record fires in the Amazon on Brazilian President,

the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who has shifted his government's approach on the

environment in a really traumatic way. And this is certainly a story about climate change,

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