Brazil lacks resources to fight Amazon fires: Bolsonaro

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SAO PAULO/BRASILIA - The Brazilian government lacks the resources to fight a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday, weeks after telling

donors he did not need their money.

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. 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."On Wednesday, Bolsonaro said, without supporting evidence, that non-governmental organizations were behind the fires.

"As NGOs lose funding ... What can they do?" he asked. "Try to take me down, try to take me down. That's all that's left for them to do."

 

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