As record numbers of fires burn in Amazon, Bolsonaro blames NGOs
He also recently fired the head of INPE, Ricardo Galvao, after dismissing data showing an 88% rise in deforestation between June 2018 and June 2019 as “lies.”
A man works in a burning tract of Amazon jungle as it is being cleared by loggers and farmers in Iranduba(photo credit: BRUNO KELLY/REUTERS)ByTATIANA FREITAS, DAVID BILLER/BLOOMBERG NEWS/TNS
