While the fires continue in the Amazon, how much is the natural capital worth?

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(CNN Spanish) - “Why do they have their eyes on the Amazon? What do they want there? ”Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro asked on Monday in Brasilia. And it is that the devastation by the fires in the Amazon has the world in suspense, with thousands of hectares of forest consumed by the flames.

The Brazilian government said it would be receptive to international aid, on the condition that the country will administer the funds, President Otávio Rego Barros spokesman said on Tuesday. He accepted Britain's offer to receive $ 12 million in aid to fight fires, a spokesman for the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told CNN.

However, President Bolsonaro insisted that he will not receive the 20 million dollars offered by the G7 until the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, does not apologize to him, after the crossings between both leaders. “We have nothing against the G7, quite the opposite. The problem is against a G7 president, ”he said Tuesday.

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The value of biodiversity

Although it is difficult to know for sure how much natural capital has been lost in the fires that have devastated the Amazon in recent days, both in Brazil and in Bolivia and Paraguay, last year WWF estimated that the world's natural capital would cost more than 125 billion of dollars. In 2005, the World Bank estimated that they were about 40 billion dollars.

Latin America is one of the regions with the greatest biodiversity in the world and the Amazon is one of the largest and most important biomes on the planet.

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While the Government of Brazil organizes a meeting of South American countries on September 6 in Leticia, Colombia, to discuss “a unique policy of preserving the Amazon and sustainable exploitation of the region”, here we present the figures of natural capital in Latin America .

Biodiversity