Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat
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FILE - Firefighters work to put out a blaze in the Amazon forest during a drought and high temperatures in the rural municipality of Careiro Castanho, Amazonas state, Brazil, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)FILE - A wildfire consumes land recently deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, Aug. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)FILE - Fire brigade members work to put out a wildfire in Apui, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)FILE - A wildfire burns in the Amazon in the municipality of Manaquiri in Brazil's Amazonas state, Sept. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)
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FILE - Firefighters work to put out a blaze in the Amazon forest during a drought and high temperatures in the rural municipality of Careiro Castanho, Amazonas state, Brazil, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)