Bolsonaro, a former army captain who has ironically referred to himself as "Captain Chainsaw," views the Amazon as a source of jobs and economic growth and has encouraged people to settle there. Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro at a campaign rally in Manaus, capital city of Amazonas state, on Sept. Bolsonaro, they say, has encouraged more farming, ranching and mining in the Amazon while at the same time slashing the budgets and staff of government agencies tasked with protecting the jungle and stopping deforestation. Under President Jair Bolsonaro, who is trying to win a second term in Sunday's presidential election, more than 13,000 square miles of jungle have been lost, according to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research that tracks fires in the Amazon.Įnvironmentalists and political analysts chalk up the damage to two main factors. Bruno Kelly for NPRĬosta and other settlers have been cutting down the world's largest rainforest at record rates. Nobody around here ever bothers to pay." Seventy-year-old farmer Dorival Costa on his land on the BR-319 highway through the Brazilian Amazon on Monday. "I've been fined three times" for deforestation, Costa says. Torching the jungle is illegal but as Costa moves through his plot, clearing away charred underbrush with a machete, he just shrugs. The 70-year-old farmer in the Brazilian Amazon has just set fire to 5 acres of rainforest that he will convert into cattle pasture. HUMAITÁ, Brazil - Dorival Costa has no qualms about scorching the earth.
X A large fire in a recently deforested area of the Amazon rainforest along Highway BR-319 in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept.
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