“These fires in the Amazon are cultural and of a small proportion”, indicates the video broadcast by the Government, an argument that has been rejected by ambietalists and several observers.
This is not the first time DiCaprio has referred to the situation in the Brazilian Amazon, which has led Bolsonaro to accuse the Hollywood ‘star’ of financing forest fires in 2019.
Last month, DiCaprio again criticized the posture of the Brazilian head of state in the face of fires in what is the largest tropical forest in the world.
“The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is under international pressure to contain the fires, but he has publicly doubted their seriousness in the past, claiming that opponents and indigenous communities were responsible,” wrote the actor on the social network Instagram.
The Brazilian Amazon recorded about 30,000 fires in August, the second highest number for the month in 10 years, surpassing only 5% the numbers recorded in the same period of 2019, when images of flames in the largest tropical forest on the planet circulated around the world and generated outrage.
The data are from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
The Amazon is the largest tropical forest in the world and has the greatest biodiversity recorded in an area of the planet, with approximately 5.5 million square kilometers, and includes territories of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana (belonging to France).
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