the world's largest rainforest, a 61% rise from the same month in 2019. In addition, October saw a huge surge in the number of hotspots in the forest (more than 17,000 fires are burning in the Amazon's rainforest) - with more than double the amount detected in the same month last year. See also Amanyé Atlantic Forest Bandeirantes Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest Environmental impact of meat production Forest protection Indigenous peoples in Brazil Tapiche Ohara's Reserve Organizations Amazon Conservation Association Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) Amazon Watch Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA) Rainforest Action Network Rainforest Alliance Rainforest Foundation Fund Save the Amazon Rainforest Organisation (STARO) Technology Amazon Surveillance System (Sistema de Vigilância da Amazônia) Global Forest Watch Notes References Further reading Bunker, S.G. (1985). Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State. University of Illinois Press. Dean, Warren (1976). Rio Claro: A Brazilian Plantation System, 1820–1920. Stanford University Press. Dean, Warren (1997). Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber: A Study in Environmental History. Cambridge University Press. Hecht, Susanna and Alexander Cockburn (1990). The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon. New York: Harper Perennial. Hochstetler, K. and M. Keck (2007). Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. Duke University Press. Revkin, A. (1990). The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest. Houghton Mifflin. Weinstein, Barbara (1983). The Amazon Rubber Boom 1850–1920. Stanford University Press. External links Journey into Amazonia The Amazon: The World's Largest Rainforest WWF in the Amazon rainforest Amazonia.org.br Good daily updated Amazon information database on the web, held by Friends of The Earth – Brazilian Amazon. amazonia.org Sustainable Development in the Extractive Reserve of the Baixo Rio Branco – Rio Jauaperi – Brazilian Amazon. Amazon Rainforest News Original news updates on the Amazon. Amazon-Rainforest.org Information about the Amazon rainforest, its people, places of interest, and how everyone can help. Conference: Climate change and the fate of the Amazon. Podcasts of talks given at Oriel College, University of Oxford, 20–22 March 2007. Dead humpback whale calf in the Amazon Rainforest Amazon biome Rainforest Ecoregions of South America Natural history of Peru Natural history of Brazil Natural history of Ecuador Neotropical ecoregions Rainforests Regions of South America Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests Forestry in South America Amazon