(CNN) While the world's attention focuses on the destructive Amazon wildfires in Brazil, devastating blazes have decimated swathes of tropical forests and savannah in neighboring Bolivia.

More than 1.8 million acres in Bolivia have been burned, prompting President Evo Morales to suspend his re-election campaign on Sunday, according to the state-run Bolivian Information Agency (BIA).

The country saw 13,396 fires in August, a 422% increase from the month before, according to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

On Monday, Morales said that 4,000 state employees and volunteers were currently battling the flames -- which according to Reuters are burning unabated across areas near Bolivia's border with Brazil and Paraguay.

Wildfires have decimated large areas of Bolivia's rainforest.

"Nothing is more precious that our Mother Earth; she can survive without us but we cannot survive without her," Morales wrote on Twitter.

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