NOEMI LARDIZABAL-DADO

The hashtag #PrayForTheAmazon trended on Thursday morning in the Philippines and brought so much indignation on social media. Photos shared using #PrayForAmazonas and #AmazonRainforest became viral. There is just one problem. Many of the viral images of the Amazon rainforest fires are not current or are not of the Amazon. French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday tweeted a photo of a burning Amazon Rainforest calling it an “international emergency and called for the situation to be discussed at the G7 summit in two days.” It does not help that Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro accused the Brazilian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for starting the Amazon Rainforest fires to hurt his government. Bolsonaro presented no evidence which enraged critics and led to a growing social media campaign over the dangers to the Amazon.

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