UNCONTROLLABLE A laborer (right) with a friend looks at a fire that spread to the farm he works on next to a highway in Nova Sta. Helena municipality in northern Mato Grosso State, south in the Amazon basin in Brazil. Greenpeace has described the burning portion of the vast rainforests as cemetery as the raging fire literally killed everything in the forests. AFP PHOTO

LIMA: Raging wildfires have drawn the world's attention to the Amazon but immolation is just one of the dangers facing the world's largest rain forest, environmental experts across the region say.

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