https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Brazil_wildfires
Bad for you. Bad for me. Bad for all of us.
Bad for you. Bad for me. Bad for all of us.
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been blamed by international leaders and environmental non-government organizations (NGOs) for the extent of the wildfires within the Brazilian portion of the Amazon. Bolsonaro was elected in October 2018 and took office in January 2019, after which he and his ministries changed governmental policies that appeared to weaken the protection of the rainforest and make it favorable for farmers to continue their practices of slash-and-burn,[20] accelerating the deforestation from previous years.[3] Land-grabbers had used Bolsonaro's election to extend their activities into cutting in the land of the previously isolated Apurinã in Amazonas, where the "world's largest standing tracts of unbroken rainforest" are found.[11] Among Bolsonaro's actions on entering office was to cut US$23 million from Brazil's environmental enforcement agency, making it difficult for the agency to regulate deforestation efforts.[34] Bolsonaro and his ministers have also segmented the environmental agency, placing part of its control under the agricultural ministry which is led by the country's farming lobby, weakened the protections on nature reserves and territories belonging to the indigenous people of Brazil, and encouraged businesses to file counter-land claims against regions managed by sustainable forestry practices.[58]
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