#Brazil tells landowners to stop setting fires in Amazon 'climate emergency'
"Those who deliberately set fire to private areas will have their properties embargoed and no longer be able to obtain funding, according to the head of environment agency IBAMA, Rodrigo Agostinho."
"If we hadn't reduced #deforestation by almost 50% we would be living through the Apocalypse," Silva said. "Right now we're in a #ClimateEmergency in Brazil."
"Deforestation in #Brazil's #Amazon has decreased 40% in the first three months of 2024 from a year earlier, Environment Minister Marina Silva said on Tuesday.
Silva told reporters at an event in Brasilia that the data are "highly significant" because they follow a 50% drop in #deforestation in 2023. She did not provide detailed figures."
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