The Amazon Is Brazil’s, Not Yours, Bolsonaro Tells Europeans
- France, Germany worried about Brazil’s environmental policies
- National space agency showed 88% rise in Amazon deforestation
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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro attacked the “environmental psychosis” of European leaders concerned over his administration’s plans to develop the Amazon rainforest, and insisted that the numbers showing sharply increased rates of deforestation were “lies.”
“The Amazon is Brazil’s -- not yours,” he said Friday at a meeting with foreign journalists at the presidential palace in Brasilia. Questioned over numbers from Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research, INPE, showing an 88% rise in deforestation between June 2018 and June 2019, he said the data was false and that he would summon the head of the institute for an explanation.