Mr Bolsonaro also claimed news organisations had exploited the fires to undermine his government, saying:"Most of the media wants Brazil to end up like Venezuela."
Kumi Naidoo, Amnesty International's secretary-general, said:"Instead of spreading outrageous lies or denying the scale of deforestation taking place, we urge the president to take immediate action to halt the progress of these fires.
But Filipe Martins, an adviser to Mr Bolsonaro, said the Amazon would be saved by Brazil and not"the empty, hysterical and misleading rhetoric of the mainstream media, transnational bureaucrats and NGOs".Fires in the rainforest at this time of year are not unusual, but environmentalists blame the increase on farmers deliberately setting fires to clear land for agriculture.
This month, Norway and Germany stopped funding anti-deforestation projects in Brazil, worried by changes to how the projects were being chosen under Mr Bolsonaro.
Industrialised countries who produce an excess of CO2 should have to pay towards the upkeep and perhaps subsidise these farmers so that they protect the forest, and not burn it. It’s a world problem. Idiot Macron and that berk from Ireland seek only political gain for themselves.
Really don’t know why they don’t leave Brazilian rain forest alone. There is no magic, illness curing fruit in there, nothing that will make you look 10 years younger.
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