The huge fires in the Amazon rainforest have destroyed the homes of an ancient tribe who live deep in the woodland.

The fire is raging out of control destroying homes and ancient protected forest reserves.

The indigenous Mura tribe are surrounded by nothing but dry soil and fallen timber which is the result of rapid deforestation and the thousands of wildfires that are raging out of control across Brazil.

Indigenous tribe leader Raimundo Mura, who lives in a reserve near Humaita in theAmazonas state said: "I'll give my last drop of blood for this forest."

He said: "All the trees had lives, they all needed to live, each in their own place.

Members of the Mura tribe sit on scorched land inside the Amazon rainforest (
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Indigenous people from the Mura tribe (
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"For us this is destruction. What is being done here is an atrocity against us."

Handech Wakana Mura, another local leader within the forest, said: "With each passing day we see the destruction advance – deforestation, invasion and logging.

"We are sad because the forest is dying at every moment.

"We feel the climate changing and the world needs the forest.

An Indigenous named Raimundo Praia Mura (
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A raging fire in the Amazon rainforest in the state of Tocantins, Brazil (
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"We need the forest and our children need the forest."

More than 9,500 new forest fires have started across Brazil, mainly in the Amazon rainforest basin since August 15.

There has been international condemnation of failure to control the fires in the forest.

Experts estimate an entire three football pitches worth of rainforest are lost every minute.

The extent of the Amazon rainforest fire is so severe they can be seen by satellites.

Figures from Brazil's  National Institute for Space Research  (INPE) show that in July the Amazon rainforest, lost 519 square miles of trees, a new record for the most deforestation the Amazon has suffered in a single month.

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INPE has reported an 84 per cent rise in wildfires since the start of the year with a total of 74,155 incidents so far.

Global Forest Watch, which is sponsored by the World Resources Institute and monitors forest and track fires using satellite date, said there had been 109,000 fire alerts in Brazil between August 13-22.

Brazil's largest state Amazonas declared a state of emergency on Monday.

Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has been slammed by foreign leaders and environmentalists who blame his government for a rapid increase in deforestation.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has also revealed an image of the fires taken from its NOAA-20 satellite (
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Bolsonaro has said in the past that protective measures on the rainforest has hindered economic growth.

In January, Bolsonaro promised to open up the Amazon to mining and farming.

Although fires are a regular and natural occurrence during the regular dry season at this time of year, environmentalists blamed the sharp rise on farmers setting the forest alight to clear land for pasture.

Federal prosecutors in Brazil said on Thursday they are investigating a spike in deforestation and wildfires raging in the Amazon state of Para to determine whether there has been reduced monitoring and enforcement of environmental protections there.

Prosecutors also said they will investigate an ad reportedly published by a local newspaper last week encouraging farmers to participate in a "Fire Day," in which they would burn large areas of forest "to show Bolsonaro their willingness to work."