Discussions regarding deforestation at international climate conferences usually focus on tropical forests. The protection of the Amazon rainforest, for example, receives a lot of attention – and in fact, according to the environmental organization WWF, more fires have been counted in the Brazilian part of the Amazon region in the last eleven months than at any time since 2007. By mid-October, 13 million hectares had been affected by the fires. If the fires in the Cerrado and Pantanal – two other important biomes in Brazil – are included, the area affected rises to 30.1 million hectares.