The G7 nations have agreed to spend more than twenty million dollars to fight record fires tearing through the Amazon rainforest, an initiative Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said treated his country like a colony
The presidents of France and Chile announced the pledge at the G7 summit in the French town of Biarritz yesterday, with the French leader, Emmanuel Macron, saying: that they must respond to the call of the forest which is burning currently in the Amazon.”
Macron also disclosed that the G7 club – comprising Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, also, agreed to support a medium-term reforestation plan.
According to the report, satellites have recorded more than forty- one thousand fires in Brazil’s Amazon region so far this year while experts say most of the fires are set by farmers or ranchers clearing existing farmland.
The tropical forest covers more than five million square kilometres across nine countries, including Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
Its protection is seen as vital to the fight against climate change because of the vast amounts of carbon dioxide it absorbs.
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