"A protester with a placard that reads ""stop denying our planet is dying"" joins a demonstration organised by climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion outside the Brazilian embassy in central London on August 23, 2019 calling on Brazil to act to protect the Amazon rainforest from deforestation and fire. - Climate change activists demonstrated outside the Brazilian embassy in London on August 23, urging President Jair Bolsonaro to halt the fires in the Amazon rainforest. Protests were also planned for other European cities. Official figures show nearly 73,000 forest fires were recorded in Brazil in the first eight months of the year -- the highest number for any year since 2013. Most were in the Amazon. (Photo by Isabel Infantes / AFP)ISABEL INFANTES/AFP/Getty Images"
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