As fires burn, Bolsonaro says Brazil should be congratulated for its 'environment work'
Bolsonaro and an aerial view shows smoke rising into the air around the Cuiaba river in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil,
President JairBolsonarosaid Thursdaythat Brazil "should be congratulated for the way it preserves its environment".
Recent data shows fires raging in Brazil's Amazon rainforest and Pantanal wetlands with historic force.
Speaking at a public event in the northeast state of Paraiba,Bolsonaroalso said, "Brazil is the country that preserves the environment the most."
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Amazon deforestation has surged 34.5 pewr centin the 12 months through July, compared to the same period a year ago, according to data from government space research agency Inpe.
And, in the world's largest wetland, the Pantanal, a record 23,490 square kilometers have burned through Septewmber6,nearly 16 per centof the Brazilian Pantanal, according to a Federal University of Rio de Janeiro analysis.
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In the Amazon, illegal ranchers and land speculators generally set fire to plots of land to clear them for agricultural purposes.
Environmental advocates blameBolsonaro, who supports introducing more commercial farming and mining in the Amazon, for emboldening those who destroy the forest. The president says developing the Amazon will lift the region out of poverty.
Bolsonarosaid on Wednesdaythe government was attempting to resolve the problem of fires via an initiative to issue land titles to those squatting on public land, in an effort the government has previously argued will allow them to be held accountable.