Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tells German Chancellor Angela Merkel to use the Amazon deforestation aid offered by the European country to reforest Germany

According to the broadcast político site, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said German Chancellor Angela Merkel should "take the money" blocked for environmental preservation in Brazil and reforest Germany.

Over the weekend, the German government decided to suspend investments in Amazon Rainforest protection projects due to the high deforestation rates reported by Inpe and widely criticized by the Jair Bolsonaro government.

According to the broadcast político, Bolsonaro said that "I even wanted to send a message to dear lady Angela Merkel, who suspended 80 million reais (€35 million) for the Amazon. Take this money and reforest Germany, okay? It needs a lot more than here", he said during a conversation with journalists yesterday.

Following this, President Jair Bolsonaro said he does not need German money. A few days ago, German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze, who was directly responsible for canceling the money send, countered that the reaction shows that the German government is "doing exactly the right thing".

Deutsche Welle says German ministry of Environment will suspend funding for projects in the Amazon; Yanomami leader David Kopenawa denounces illegal gold mining in Roraima

Due to the sharp increase in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, the German Ministry of Environment has decided to suspend funding for projects to protect the forest and biodiversity, german Minister Svenja Schulze said in an interview with Tagesspiegel today, according to the website Deutsche Welle Brazil.

This decision comes after new data released by the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) confirmed the significant increase in deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. In July this year, the devastation of the biome grew 278% over the same month of 2018 according to the instinct.

This information cost the office of Inpe's president, Ricardo Galvão. President Jair Bolsonaro dismissed Galvão after the release of this information. President Jair Bolsonaro, after the dismissal of the president of Inpe, said the data released by the institute were "inaccurate", but did not indicate exactly where the inaccuracies were. He also mocked the media coverage surrounding Amazon deforestation by saying she was the "chainsaw captain".

Later this week, on a Facebook broadcast, president Jair Bolsonaro again argued for gold mining to be released in the Amazon region. He made this statement alongside indigenous people of the Raposa Serra do Sol reserve, which is in Roraima. Bolsonaro defends the possibility of liberation of the activity even in indigenous lands.

However, according to leader Yanomami Dário Kopenawa, despite the denunciations made by his people, "the prospectors are still there." Kopenawa is the son of historical Yanomami leader David Kopenawa. , he is fixing a problem for the Brazilian state ”, criticizes the young vice president of the Hutukara Yanomami association in Roraima.