Fires are not a natural phenomenon in the Amazon region ; they are used for food security, hunting and religious rituals by Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities , and also as a widespread technique for land clearing for small- and large-scale farms for agriculture . The dramatically increased forest burning observed in the Amazon recently are the result of illegal land grabbing, the small-a and large-scale cattle ranching sector and agribusiness practices coupled with loosening of land tenure policies and decision makers' neglect of deforestation and burning monitoring data . The fire outbreaks intensified substantially to the point that, in August 2019, there were approximately 3500 fires in 148 Indigenous territories . Although most of the burning in the Legal Amazon in Brazil occurred on private land of medium and larger sizes ,
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