By the end of next year, the state of Para is requiring all cattle to be tagged to trace where they came from in order to be sold legally.

CNN Video(CNN) - Brazil's Amazon rainforest is in flames, burning at the highest rate since 2013, when that nation's space research center first began tracking fires there. How big is the Amazon rainforest and what does it matter? This means more than one-and-a-half soccer fields of Amazon rainforest are being destroyed every minute of every day, INPE has stated. Bolsonaro recently stated an alternative explanation for the recent spate of Amazon fires. Cows produce a greenhouse gas known as methane, which is 25 times more potent that carbon dioxide.

(CNN) - The Amazon is burning -- and humans are likely to blame. "The vast majority of these fires are human-lit," said Christian Poirier, the program director of non-profit organization Amazon Watch. Farmers and ranchers have long used fire to clear land, said Poirier, and are likely behind the unusually large number fires burning in the Amazon today. Now, environmental organizations say he has encouraged ranchers, farmers, and loggers to exploit and burn the rainforest like never before with a sense of impunity. On Wednesday, he speculated that the Amazon fires could have been caused by nonprofit organizations who are suffering from lack of funding, to "generate negative attention against me and against the Brazilian government."