While the world is paying a lot of attention to the Amazon rainforest burning, deforestation is quietly gutting another major forest in the African Congo, thus compounding the threat to our planet.

The nation of Brazil under the anti-environmental policies of President Jair Bolsonaro has seen a devastating rise in forest fires this year as wannabe farmers try to clear land for cattle ranches to take advantage of the worldwide demand for beef.

The world has been outraged by deforestation, which threatens the global oxygen supply and is dealing with a major setback to the fight against climate change.

That’s why Norway is telling companies based there not to fund deforestation and a major shoe company in the United States is no longer buying leather produced in Brazil.

And the deforestation in the Amazon comes as President Donald Trump is set to open up the largest temperate rainforest in…