From January 1st to August 26th of 2019, a total of 82,285 wildfires were registered in Brazil. The region most affected by them was the Amazon rainforest, which accounted for almost 52 percent of the fires reported. The Cerrado, a Brazilian biome equivalent to a tropical savanna, suffered over 30 percent of all the forest fires identified in this period, while the Atlantic forest represented 10.4 percent.