translated from Spanish: Canada offers aircraft and $11 million firefighting in Amazon

The Government of Canada offered to send C$15 million (US$11.25 million) to fight fire in the Amazon on Monday.
The announcement, made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, during his final press conference at the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France, is independent of the plan that the group of industrialized countries agreed to fight fires in the jungle Deforestation.
“I can’t speak for my G7 partners, but we’re happy to announce here and now that Canada will invest $15 million in those wildfires” and sending “tankplanes that are so in need.”
The G7 agreed to allocate US$20 million for firefighting in the Amazon rainforest.
Trudeau stated during its press conference that the international community could “pretend that the situation in the Amazon is only part of a natural cycle, but it is not exactly what is happening there.”
“The cost of human activity and extreme weather events in our communities, our environment, our health and our world will continue to rise unless we take decisive action as part of our broader commitment to combating climate change,” Trudeau added.
Canada, the world’s second largest forest country, has extensive experience in fighting forest fires, which Trudeau quoted today in announcing the contribution.
“A lot of people come and help Canada during our hardest years and I’m happy to say we’ll be there helping our South American friends,” Trudeau added.
The Canadian prime minister explained that Ottawa has been made available to the Brazilian authorities to assist in the firefighting of the Amazon, but have not yet received a response from Brasilia.
Trudeau added that Canada has been a “leader” in the fight against climate change and that the global economic situation is linked to environmental health.
The massive fires of the Amazon, which according to French President Emmanuel Macron, cover 1.2 million square kilometers, have become at the last moment one of the agenda items of the G7 Summit that ended today in Biarritz.
The Brazilian Armed Forces, mobilized by President Jair Bolsonaro to collaborate in the fight against the fires that destroy part of the Amazon, already operate in eight of the nine Amazonian states, following the request for help presented on Monday by the Amapá governorate.
The mobilization of the Armed Forces was announced last Friday by Bolsonaro as the first step to fight the fires and amid the strong criticism it has received both at home and abroad for the lack of government action in combating the defo Amazon.

Original source in Spanish