forest fires degrade air quality in Bogota

In Bogota (Colombia), residents are suffocated by increasingly deteriorating air quality. Also, the month of January was the hottest in the last decade and the environmental alert was decreed four days ago. “This pollution alert worries me. I work daily in the street, I feel that my lungs are affected, and that things are going less and less well“, worries a resident.

If the rise in temperatures favors this state of air quality in Bogota, it is also the forest fires in the Colombian part of the Amazon that play a crucial role on it. In a few days, the equivalent of the city of Paris was reduced to ashes there. “Our national park has been set on fire by criminals who seek, with this practice, to deforest and appropriate the Earth“, protests Diego Molano, Colombian Minister of Defense. And these fires are mainly linked to deforestation which proliferates despite the recommendations of environmental specialists who encourage the preservation of this essential ecosystem for the survival of species. In 50 years, 20% of the forest has disappeared.