Brazil Environment Minister Joaquim Pereira Leite said on Tuesday that the government would contract an additional 700 enforcement agents to combat destruction of the Amazon rainforest, including wildfires.
Pereira Leite said the government had also made good on right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro's pledge to double the environmental enforcement and firefighting budgets. Bolsonaro made that promise at an Earth Day summit convened by U.S. President Joe Biden in April.
Pereira Leite said in a news briefing that funding for enforcement had more than doubled to 498 million reais , compared with 228 million reais previously. The Economy Ministry had already approved the hirings for the environmental enforcement agency Ibama and parks service ICMBio, Pereira Leite said.
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