Brazil’s President Bolsonaro claims green groups deliberately started thousands of devastating blazes to make him look bad
BRAZIL’S president has accused environmental groups of deliberately starting some of the thousands Amazon rainforest fires.
Bolsonaro also made similar allegations earlier when he suggested green groups had gone out with cameras and started fires deliberately so they could be filmed. On the question of burning in the Amazon, which in my opinion may have been initiated by NGOs because they lost money, what is the intention? To bring problems to BrazilPaulo Moutinho, co-founder of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, said: "It is very difficult to have natural fires in the Amazon; it happens but the majority come from the hand of humans.
Wildfires in the country are thought to often occur in the dry season but conservationists have also pointed to fires started deliberately in efforts to illegally deforest the land so they can be developed economically. Some farmers are said to have organised “fire days” in a bid to take advantage of weaker legislation by the authorities.Thick smoke plunged the city into darkness at around 3pm for around an hour.Strong winds carried thick plumes of smoke more than 1,700 miles to the city which met cold, humid air from the coast, experts said, which triggered the blackout.
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