Amazon Forest Fires Pose a Health Threat to Children, Warns WHO

World Health Organization ( WHO ) functionary warn on Friday that the Amazon forest fires are posing a picky terror to the well - being of child in the sphere . ventilation in all that smoke , which is full of particulate matter that can lodge itself in people ’s lungs , can pose respiratory danger , especially to sensible individuals like children .

“ We have some anecdotical reports of increase of certain respiratory diseases in children but nothing that we can report from a systematic monitoring , ” Maria Neira , WHO ’s director of public wellness , environmental , and societal determinants of health , said in an interview withReutersannouncing the risks .

The flaming are not born fires due , they ’re a result of ranchers lawlessly log trees and place the brush on fire to make way for cattle pasturage . Eventually , that acres is sell to soy farmers . These fires happens every year , but this year the number of fires have reached level not seen for a decennary .

Toxic, toxic smoke.

Toxic, toxic smoke.Photo: AP

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Many communities close to the flack have been empty as the Brazilian U. S. Army endeavor to put out some of the flames , but there is still a risk for those who stay on , include the autochthonous people who live in the rainforest . Accordingto Survival International , local have reported armed loggers entering the lands of uncontacted tribes . These communities are facing both the threat of violence from the lumberjack and ranchers , and now they face the threat of air defilement as well . WHO has n’t confirmed any deaths , but theBBC reportsthat a couple in a rural village in the northwestern commonwealth of Rondonia has die due to the fires .

The worst part of these fires is the time of year is only getting get down . The dry season , which is when people ordinarily use fires to clear land , normally stretches into February .

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.