A month after the 'Day of Fire' ignited increased fires in the Amazon rainforest, Environment Minister Ricardo Salles admitted that the government made errors regarding the environmental crisis that affected the country's image abroad.
In an interview with Folha, he considered that the federal government failed to communicate and assessed that the alignment between municipal, state, and federal management in the fight against deforestation should improve.
Next week, the minister will travel to Europe. He says he will seek financial support for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest and is open to dialogue with everyone, including the governments of Germany and France.
According to him, the regional superintendent of Ibama (Brazilian Institute of the Environment) in Pará, Evandro Cunha dos Santos, dismissed on Tuesday (10), made an "untrue" statement at an event. At a public hearing on Monday, he said he was ordered to stop the burning of vehicles that are caught by federal law enforcement committing environmental crimes in the Amazon.
Translated by Kiratiana Freelon