'We Are Literally Sawing Off the Branch We All Live On': Amazon Deforestation Increasing Under Bolsonaro
Green advocates blame the Bolsonaro government’s attack on regulations on deforestation and general anti-environmental policies for the jump in clear-cutting.
The Bolsonaro administration in January announced its plans to open the Amazon for resource exploitation—a move that came before the new presidency was even a month old. At the time, Bolsonaro’s chief of strategic affairs Maynard Santa Rosa referred to the Amazon as an “unproductive, desertlike” area that would benefit from development.
In April, as Common Dreams reported, indigenous activists in Brazil sounded the alarm over the Bolsonaro government’s attack on the rainforest and made a non-violent demonstration at the country’s capital city of Brasilia.
“The white man is our finishing off our planet and we want to defend it,” Alessandra Munduruku, a representative of the Munduruku tribe from the northern state of Pará, said during that protest.
Bolsonaro appears committed to that project.
“With Bolsonaro, people who destroy forests feel safe and those who protect forests feel threatened,” Marcio Astrini, public policy coordinator for Greenpeace Brazil, told Reuters.
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