Facebook Twitter Pinterest The entrance to Novo Progresso. Photograph: Lucas Landau/The GuardianDuring a two-hour monitoring flight through the skies around Novo Progresso the Guardian saw giant columns of white and grey smoke rising from supposedly protected forests below. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kayapó protest that blocked the BR-163 road near Novo Progresso, Pará, on 17 August. Photograph: Lucas Landau/The GuardianBatista compared Bolsonaro’s approach to the forest fires to his denialist handling of coronavirus, which has now killed more than 120,000 Brazilians. “Unfortunately, this simply isn’t true.”The former Ibama official was similarly pessimistic, claiming its operations were “completely paralyzed” and Brazil’s environmental policies in tatters.

Source: The Guardian September 02, 2020 09:11 UTC