Our timelines have been hit with tons of pictures of the Amazon Rainforest on fire... but what's really happening?

Today we find out why the fires are in record numbers this year and what that could mean for us all the way over here in Australia.

CREDITS

Host/Producer: Claire Murphy

Executive Producer: Elle Beattie

Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri

Thanks to our special guest Enrique Ortiz, Tropical Ecologist, Program Director of the Andes Amazon Fund, Board member of the Amazon Conservation Association and President of the Association of the Conservation of the Amazon Basin.

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