thomasstephan's comments

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status shows no issues. Seeing a few possibly related issues. Reddit for instance is hitting problems as well.

Yes

It's man made, the drought barely help the people behind this to do it faster.

It's incredibly difficult to contain. These are very remote settlements and deep inland. Furthermore the government is ill-equipped to fight against it all. To have been working for years now on a project to protect the Amazon rainforest in southern Peru, even when pointing the illegal farming operations the government can't do much. At best they are overwhelmed, more often then not they don't even bother intervening if it's not on a national park land or border. Only private conservation efforts are managing to help slow down the spread, and they are very very localized.

The key contributing factor is slash and burn for farming like activities. Your point is more of a long term consequence. The forest is not burning naturally...

To be spending a lot of time working in the rainforest in Peru where logging (legal and illegal) is everywhere, you can't trace properly. Certificates are easy to forge, the entire pipeline is pen and paper. How can you tell once the legal wood and the illegal wood are in a container which is which? You can't.

So many people here are outraged, how many of you are supporting on the ground teams protecting rainforests?

If you care, do your research, support causes like https://www.junglekeepers.org (disclaimer here; that is the one I know, work for and support) and don't use exotic woods.