The voracious fire of the Amazon rainforest put the world on alert for the dangers it may pose to the ecosystem, although for not all it is equally important: the president of Brazil, the country that owns the most Amazonian territory, took it as a possible cri action mine against him.
Jair Bolsonaro pointed out to the “oegeneros” as possible perpetrators of burning hundreds of hectares of forest: “There may be, yes, and I am not asserting, a criminal action by those ‘oenegeros’ to draw attention to me, against the Government of Brazil, and that’s the war we face.” Just weeks ago, Bolsonaro fired Ricardo Galvao, director of the Space Research Institute, for alerting him to deforestation in the area. He also explained that he like cut “public money going to NGOs and now they’re feeling it.”
Há mais of 27 years not Brazil, we denounced the destructiao of nossas flores, alerting for queimadas cliffs. Essa imagem é de 2008, na Floresta Nacional do Jamanxim, s margins da BR-163, no Pará, em uma unidade de conservao o that deveria to be preserved. pic.twitter.com/ApmBEoPZSD — Greenpeace Brazil (@GreenpeaceBR)
August 20, 2019
The NGO Institute of Environmental Research of the Amazon (IPAM) associated the growth of firebulbs with deforestation: “If the drought does not explain the current fires, the retake of the deforestation of the jungle does,” they said in a statement.
“Fire is normally used to clear the ground after deforestation”
Deforestation of the Amazon is an issue of concern to governments such as those of Norway and Germany, who supported organizations fighting the advance with money. Bolsonaro said, in that sense, that they represent “foreign interests”. >
Given the president’s intention to advance mining and agro-farm businesses in the planet’s lung, both countries withdrew some of their contributions.
