Deforestation has surged this year as agencies tasked with monitoring illegal activities were weakened by right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. Nigeria
Handout picture released by the Communication Department of the State of Mato Grosso showing a firefighter combating a fire in the Amazon basin in the municipality Sorriso, Mato Grosso State, Brazil, on August 26, 2019. Mayke TOSCANO / Mato Grosso State Communication Department / AFP
From January to the end of August, 51.9 percent of Brazil’s recorded 88,816 fires were in the rainforest, according to the INPE, a number experts call a dramatic, direct consequence of farmers’ widespread deforestation. Deforestation has surged this year as agencies tasked with monitoring illegal activities were weakened by right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro.
Bolsonaro claimed in a live Facebook broadcast Thursday “this year’s fires are below the average of recent years.”
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