August 26, 2019 8:59 PM

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G7 to finance fire-fighting aircraft for Amazon

G7 has agreed to spend 22 million US Dollars to tackle the huge forest fires engulfing the world's biggest Amazon rain-forest. <br />''<br />''This was stated by Presidents of France and Chile today at the G7 summit in French town of Biarritz.<br />''<br />''The G7 group comprising Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, has also agreed to support a medium-term reforestation plan which will be unveiled at the UN in September.<br />''<br />''The initiative was announced after G7 leaders held talks on the environment, which focused on the fires destroying chunks of the Amazon rain forests.<br />''<br />''Nearly 80,000 forest fires have been detected in Brazil since the beginning of the year a little over half in the Amazon region.<br />''<br />''<br />''<br />

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