Amazon burning but neighbouring Bolivia too under threat from spreading fires; see images

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Wildfires in Bolivia have torched two million hectares of forest and grassland since August, including some environmentally protected areas. One cabinet minister decried the "macabre game" of fires being put out, then reset behind the backs of firefighters by "saboteurs". Santa Cruz is the hardest hit of Bolivia's departments since the fires began in May and intensified in late August. While the world's attention has been focused on the destruction to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, neighbouring Bolivia is struggling with fires raging through the Robore region. (Reuters Photo)

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Fires have ripped through at least a million hectares approximately 3,800 square miles in Bolivia. (Reuters Photo)

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Bolivia's government recently authorized farmers to burn 20 hectares instead of the usual five hectares – which is believed to have contributed to thousands of wildfires. (Reuters Photo)

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The fires have doubled in size, destroying villages and vast tropical forests near Bolivia's borders with Paraguay and Brazil. (Reuters Photo)