Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has slammed environmental NGOs as a 'cancer' and denounced what he said was an international conspiracy accusing him of being responsible for devastating Amazon wildfires.
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has slammed environmental NGOs as a"cancer" and denounced what he said was an international conspiracy accusing him of being responsible for devastating Amazon wildfires.
The main target of his ire was a group of environmental NGOs which this week launched an English-language internet campaign entitled"Defundbolsonaro.org", urging potential investors in Brazil to insist on firm government commitments to the protection of the Amazon.READ MORE"Because of him the Amazon, Earth’s main biodiversity hub, and the Indigenous nations who protect it, are in critical condition.
General Augusto Heleno, Brazil's Minister of Institutional Security, acknowledged in an interview on Friday that it was possible to"improve" government action to preserve the Amazon, but he also criticised NGOs.
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