1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Act for the Amazon Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil’s borders. (2) The Amazon rainforest is commonly referred to as the lungs of the Earth . (3) The Amazon rainforest contains upwards of 100 billion metric tons of sequestered carbon, helping to stabilize the Earth’s climate. (4) The Amazon rainforest is home to 10 percent of the Earth’s biodiversity. (5) More forest has been cleared in Brazil in the summer 2019 alone than in the last three years combined. (6) Brazilian satellites indicate that about three football fields worth of trees in the Amazon rainforest located in Brazil were felled every minute in July 2019. (7) As of August 26, 2019, there were more than 41,000 fires burning in the Amazon rainforest. (8) The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) reports this to be a 78-percent increase from fires during the same period in 2018. (9) These fires have released the equivalent of 228 megatons of carbon so far this year. (10) Natural fires in the Amazon rainforest are rare, and the majority of fires are human-caused to deforest land for agriculture and mining. (11) Cattle ranching leads to approximately 80 percent of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. (12) Soy cultivation has led to the destruction of 40,000 square miles of native forests in Brazil since 2008. (13) Deforestation is taking place illegally in some of the more than 305 indigenous territories in Brazil. (14) Brazilian President Bolsonaro has implemented policies that violate the collective and individual rights of indigenous peoples. (15) Brazil’s National Indigenous Movement has called for an international boycott of commodities that are in conflict with indigenous territories. (16) President Bolsonaro has promised to scale back enforcement of environmental laws. (17) President Bolsonaro blames nongovernmental organizations for the fires without evidence. (18) President Bolsonaro has rejected deforestation data from