Tag: Amazon fires

• Wednesday, August 12th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Bolsonaro denies fires in the Amazon rainforest and calls reports a “lie”

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday angrily denied the existence of fires in the Amazon rainforest, calling it a “lie”, despite data produced by his own government showing that thousands of fires are surging across the region.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Fires in the Amazon rainforest grew 30.5% in 2019; below the historic average

  

  The number of fires in the Amazon rainforest grew 30.5% in 2019 from the previous year, according to data released by space research agency INPE. The agency said the number of fires detected in the Amazon region was 89,178 in 2019 compared with 68,345 fires in 2018.

• Monday, December 2nd 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Bolsonaro accuses Di Caprio of helping fund groups linked to fires in the Amazon rainforest

  

  American actor Leonardo DiCaprio denied a claim by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that he had helped fund groups allegedly linked to fires in the Amazon rain forest.

• Wednesday, November 27th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazilian police arrest volunteer firefighters; civic leaders claim it's a campaign to blame NGOs for Amazon fires

  

  Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested four volunteer firefighters accused of intentionally setting fires in the Amazon rainforest, but civic leaders said the arrests amounted to government harassment of environmental groups.

• Saturday, September 7th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Brazil's agribusiness joins the campaign to stop rainforest fires in the Amazon

  

  The Brazilian Amazon is facing its worst spate of forest fires since 2010, with news of the destruction of the world's largest rainforest last month prompting global outcry and worries that it could hurt demand for the country's exports.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Polls bash Bolsonaro: 38% say the president is doing “a bad or terrible job”

  

  Brazilians saying that President Jair Bolsonaro is doing a “bad or terrible” job rose to 38% from 33% previously, in the first major poll since the government faced global outcry over its handling of record fires in the Amazon rainforest.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  Bolsonaro ready to speak about Amazon fires at the UN General Assembly

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he was eager to speak about the Amazon fires that have drawn world attention at the next U.N. General Assembly in September, as the issue appeared to erode his support at home.

• Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Canada will continue trade negotiations with Mercosur, despite the current Amazon policy of Brazil

  

  Canada will continue its trade negotiations with Mercosur, the South American trading bloc that includes Brazil, despite demands to call a halt to the talks until more action is taken to protect the Amazon rainforest.

• Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Insufficient rainfall forecasted as Brazil's Amazon dry season end approaches

  

  Weak rainfall is unlikely to extinguish a record number of fires raging in Brazil's Amazon anytime soon, with pockets of precipitation through to Sept 10 expected to bring only isolated relief, according to weather data and two experts.

• Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 09:34 UTC

  Bolivian president Morales welcomes the G7 tiny contribution to preserve the Amazon rainforest

  

  Bolivia's president Evo Morales gave a half-hearted welcome on Tuesday to a G7 pledge of US$20 million to fight the Amazon wildfires, describing it as “tiny.” An underwhelmed Morales said the aid from the most industrialized countries was part of the world's “obligation” to preserve the Amazon rainforest.