Brazil`s environment minister challenges Amazon Fund
(World News Brazil)

SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil`s environment minister questioned on Friday the effectiveness of the Amazon Fund created to contain the deforestation of the vast rainforest, the latest challenge to environmentalists from climate-change sceptics within the far-right government of President Jair Bolsonaro. In a press conference at the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural Resources, Ricardo Salles cited numerous alleged irregularities in contracts between non-governmental organizations and the fund, challenging a...