Bolsonaro declares `the Amazon is ours` and calls deforestation data `lies`
(The Guardian Brazil)

Far-right president said Brazil is open to partnerships exploiting biodiversity and mining in a conversation with journalistsThe Amazon belongs to Brazil and European countries can mind their own business because they have already destroyed their own environment, said Brazil´s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, who also described his own government´s satellite data showing an alarming rise in deforestation as `lies`.`You have to understand that the Amazon is Brazil´s, not yours,` Bolsonaro said on Friday. `If all this devastation you accuse us of doing was done in the past the Amazon would have stopped existing, it would be a big desert.` Related: `A bad trip`: Jair Bolsonaro`s first six months leave even the right dismayed Continue reading...