Norway and Amazon's Aid - Benefits Suspended. Jair Bolsonaro - Brazil's right-wing populist president. He is largely responsible for deforestation in the Amazon. We wrote about it in our previous publications. During his term in office, this process is truly enormous and the scale of deforestation in the Amazon continues to grow. In light of this turn of events, Norway completely suspended any financial assistance to the Amazon Fund.
Norway and Amazon's aid. Norwegian Embassy Report on the Amazon
Norwegian diplomats present a very disturbing picture of the situation in this country. The NTB agency has received the data from this report. Norway has for many years supported the halt of the logging process in the Amazon. In total, it has earmarked approximately 9 billion Norwegian Krones for this purpose. Due to the growing scale of deforestation in the Amazon, Norway decided to withdraw all financial resources. The reason for such a decision is very prosaic: it makes no sense to financially support an initiative that is doomed to failure. It is worth emphasizing, however, that Norway does not regret the support it has so far sent to the Amazon Fund. At a time when the Fund received financial support from Norway, deforestation in the Amazon region fell by nearly 60%.
Brazilian Institute of Spatial Research and deforestation of the Amazon
The data compiled by the Brazilian Institute of Spatial Research are not optimistic. According to them, the level of deforestation in the Amazon region has increased by nearly 7% during the seven months of this year. These data were based on what the situation was like in the previous year. The President of Brazil denies that this is actually the case. He claims that the data published by the Brazilian Institute of Spatial Research are untrue. Moreover, after the publication of these research results, the current head of the Institute was fired by the President of Brazil.
Norway and Amazon's aid ... When politics comes to the fore ...
This is an excellent example of how much politics can have an impact on our nature. The green lungs of the Earth are dying, due to political complexities and reckoning. Forest defenders risk a lot by acting for the Amazon. We informed about it in the text: Amazon activist murdered - unequal struggle continues. The situation is difficult.
