Brazil’s Bolsonaro accuses NGOs of setting fires in Amazon rainforest

By Anthony Boadle and Eduardo Simões BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday accused non-governmental organizations of setting wildfires in the Amazon rainforest to damage his government's image after he cut their funding. Environment and climate experts disputed his unfounded claim as a "smoke screen" to hide the dismantling of protections for the world's largest tropical rainforest and said farmers clearing land were the cause of a surge in forest fires

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