Brazil dispatches troops, military aircraft to battle Amazon forest fires - Fox News

The Brazilian military is deploying troops to the Amazon to fight the massive wildfires that have swept the region and sparked an international outcry.

Brazil's defense minister has said that some 44,000 troops will be available for "unprecedented" operations to put out the fires, and forces are heading to six Brazilian states that asked for federal help. The states are Roraima, Rondonia, Tocantins, Para, Acre and Mato Grosso.

"The protection of the forest is our duty," Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro said in a televised address Friday. "We are aware of that and will act to combat deforestation and criminal activities that put people at risk in the Amazon. We are a government of zero tolerance for crime, and in the environmental field it will not be different."

Fire consumes an area near Jaci Parana, state of Rondonia, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019. Brazil says military aircraft and 44,000 troops will be available to fight fires sweeping through parts of the Amazon region. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

The military's first mission will be carried out by 700 troops around Porto Velho, capital of Rondonia, Defense Minister Fernando Azevedo said. The military will use two C-130 Hercules aircraft capable of dumping up to 12,000 liters (3,170 gallons) of water on fires, he said.

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“It shows the concern of Bolsonaro’s government about this issue,” Azevedo said. “It was a very fast response.”

An Associated Press journalist flying over the Porto Velho region Saturday morning reported hazy conditions and low visibility. On Friday, the reporter saw many already deforested areas that were burned, apparently by people clearing farmland, as well as a large column of smoke billowing from one fire.

This satellite image provided by NASA shows the fires in Brazil on Aug. 20, 2019. As fires raged in the Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian government on Thursday denounced international critics who say President Jair Bolsonaro is not doing. (NASA via AP)

The municipality of Nova Santa Helena in Brazil's Mato Grosso state was also hard-hit. Trucks were seen driving along a highway Friday as fires blazed and embers smoldered in adjacent fields.

Azevedo noted a tweet from President Trump in which the American leader where he offered to help Brazil fight the fires but added that Brazilia and Washington had no further communication on the subject.

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Even so, the U.S. has already started to help fight the massive wildfires. A Boeing 747-400 Global SuperTanker firefighting plane carrying nearly 20,000 of retardant, a substance used to stop fires, arrived at the Bolivia-Brazil border from California Friday.

Bolsonaro has previously described rainforest protections as an obstacle to Brazil’s economic development, sparring with critics who say the Amazon absorbs vast amounts of greenhouse gasses and is crucial for efforts to contain climate change.

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The Amazon fires have become a global issue, escalating tensions between Brazil and European countries who believe Bolsonaro has neglected commitments to protect biodiversity. Protesters gathered outside Brazilian diplomatic missions in European and Latin American cities Friday, and demonstrators also marched in Brazil.

Charcoal-making furnaces and wooden planks are seen from the air, in the city of Jaci Parana, Rondonia state on Saturday. The defense and environment ministers have outlined plans to battle the blazes that have prompted an international outcry as well as demonstrations in Brazil against President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the environmental crisis. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

The dispute spilled into the economic arena when French President Emmanuel Macron threatened to block a European Union trade deal with Brazil and several other South American countries. He wants Group of Seven leaders meeting at a summit in France this weekend to discuss the Amazon crisis.

“First we need to help Brazil and other countries put out these fires,” Macron said Saturday.

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The goal is to “preserve this forest that we all need because it is a treasure of our biodiversity and our climate thanks to the oxygen that it emits and thanks to the carbon it absorbs,” he said.

A fire burns a field on a farm in the Nova Santa Helena municipality, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil on Friday. Under increasing international pressure to contain fires sweeping parts of the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday authorized use of the military to battle the massive blazes. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Bolivia has also struggled to contain fires that swept through woods and fields. The government of Bolivian President Evo Morales has backed the increased cultivation of crops for biofuel production, raising questions about whether the policy opened the way to increased burning. The Bolivian government says 3,680 square miles have been burned this year.

On Saturday, several helicopters along with police, military troops, firefighters and volunteers on the ground worked to extinguish fires in Bolivia's Chiquitanía region, where the woods are dry at this time of year.

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Similarly, Bolsonaro had said he wants to convert land for cattle pastures and soybean farms. Brazilian prosecutors are investigating whether lax enforcement of environmental regulations may have contributed to the surge in the number of fires.

Fires are common in Brazil in the annual dry season, but they are much more widespread this year. Brazilian state experts reported nearly 77,000 wildfires across the country so far this year, up 85% over the same period in 2018. More than half of those fires occurred in the Amazon region.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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World leaders gather for G7 summit in France - Aljazeera.com

World leaders are gathering in France for the G7 summit, a meeting that European Council President Donald Tusk said will be a "difficult test of unity and solidarity" due to deep divisions over a range of issues including trade and climate change. 

The annual gathering of the G7 nations, some of the world's key industrial countries, kicked off on Saturday in the French coastal town of Biarritz. 

Thousands of anti-G7 protesters rallied in the nearby town of Hendaye as the leaders from Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States descended on Biarritz. 

The three-day summit is taking place against the backdrop of an escalating trade war between the US and China, Britain's impending exit from the European Union, growing tensions between the US and Iran over Tehran's nuclear programme and global concern over fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

Speaking before the summit, Tusk appealed for unity.

"It is increasingly difficult, for all of us, to find common language and the world needs more of our cooperation, not less," he said.

"This may be the last moment to restore our political community."

French President Emmanuel Macron, the host of this year's summit, said he wants the heads of G7 nations to focus on the defence of democracy, gender equality, education and the environment. He also invited Asian, African and Latin American leaders to join them for a global push on these issues.

In a televised speech before the summit, Macron said he hoped to find common ground with US President Donald Trump, who acrimoniously ended last year's G7 meeting in Canada, leaving the gathering and rejecting the final communique, an agreed-upon statement released by all members. 

Shortly after Trump's arrival, Macron hosted the US leader for a two-hour unscheduled lunch. 

"So far, so good," Trump told reporters, hailing his friendship with Macron. "We'll accomplish a lot this weekend and I look forward to it."

Macron listed foreign policy issues the two would address, including Libya, Syria and North Korea, adding that they shared the same objective of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. 

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Al Jazeera's James Bays, reporting from Biarritz, said the working lunch was an attempt by Macron to get Trump "on the same page".

"To have him here first, before any of the other leaders, try to get him on the same page. President Macron has seen what's happened at previous G7 summits. He's seen what President Trump can do," he said.

Another reason could be the trade dispute between France and the US, said Bays. 

Hours before leaving for Biarritz, Trump had lashed out at France for what he said were "unfair" taxes on US tech companies like Google and Amazon, and threatened to tax French wine "like they've never seen before".

France currently imposes a three percent tax on digital revenues of large Internet-based firms and Macron plans to defend a proposal for a global tax law on big tech at the summit.

US President Donald Trump, left, sits to lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron on the first day of the annual G7 summit [Marin Ludovic/Pool via Reuters]

Trump also upped his trade fight with China by raising retaliatory tariffs and ordering US companies to consider alternatives to doing business there.

China's President Xi Jinping is not among the Asian leaders invited to Biarritz. China said on Saturday it strongly opposed Trump's decision to levy additional tariffs on $550bn worth of Chinese goods and warned the US of consequences if it did not end its "wrong actions". 

Attention will also be on Boris Johnson, who will be making his G7 debut as the prime minister of Britain. Johnson is under intense pressure to pull Britain out of the EU and many see his relationship with the US as key. 

"My message to G7 leaders this week is this: the Britain I lead will be an international, outward-looking, self-confident nation," Johnson said in prepared remarks released by Downing Street before his departure.

"We will be an energetic partner on the world stage. We will stand alongside our G7 allies to solve the most pressing international issues."

As he arrived in France, Johnson said that global trade, the environment and women's education will be his "three obsessions" over the days of meetings. 

Anti-G7 protests

Meanwhile, an estimated 9,000 protesters converged on Hendaye, about 35km from Biarritz, to demand accountability on various issues including the environment, globalisation, gay rights, Palestinian rights and independence for the Basque region in Spain.

Representatives from the more-local "yellow vest" movement, which began in France in November 2018 with mass demonstrations over government taxes on fuel, were also out in force to protest inequality.

"The top capitalist leaders are here and we have to show them that the fight continues," Alain Missana, 48, an electrician wearing a yellow vest, told the Reuters news agency.

"It's more money for the rich and nothing for the poor. We see the Amazonian forests burning and the arctic melting. The leaders will hear us," he said.

Protesters gathered in the French town of Hendaye to a Spanish town near to the G7 summit venue [Stephane Mahe/Reuters]

In the French town of Bayonne, police fired water cannons and tear gas at about 400 anti-capitalist protesters after some members of the group threw stones early Saturday evening. Besides that incident, the protests had been mostly peaceful. 

France mobilised more than 13,000 police officers, backed by soldiers, to guard the summit site.

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Hong Kong Erupts in Fresh Violence as Protesters, Riot Police Brawl - The Wall Street Journal

A protester sends a tear-gas canister flying back toward police during a clash in Hong Kong on Saturday, Photo: tyrone siu/Reuters

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HONG KONG—Protesters in helmets and gas masks clashed with riot police Saturday, as the city’s pro-democracy movement took a confrontational turn after nearly two weeks of relatively peaceful turnouts.

Tear gas engulfed the industrial neighborhood of Kwun Tong as protesters were more aggressive, blocking roads, surrounding the local police station and sawing down at least one video-surveillance pole, which protesters said could be used to spy on people.

Protesters with poles fought face to face with the charging police, knocking some to the ground and sending others scrambling back. Some threw rocks at the police. A small firebomb exploded amid the melee. Officers made a handful of arrests.

The action in this 12th straight weekend of protests followed a massive peaceful demonstration a week earlier and comments from the city’s leader, Carrie Lam, that she’d be open to talking to the community. In a post on her official Instagram account on Saturday—ahead of the latest violence—she said everyone was tired after months of protests and asked if “we can sit down and talk about it?” after a calmer week.

Saturday’s clashes were the latest in a campaign of demonstrations initially sparked in June by concerns over a bill that would have legalized extradition to China. They have since ballooned into a full-blown antigovernment protest movement. There have been divergences among the protest camp, with a hard-core group of campaigners more willing to directly confront police on the front lines.

“I’m not saying I support violence,” said one of the protesters Saturday, a 34-year-old freelance videographer who identified himself as Fung. “I support fighting back to protect.”

He showed two tattoos on his arm, one with the Chinese characters for “safe” and another in English: “Be strong to be useful.”

Riot police detain a man at Kwun Tong in Hong Kong on Saturday. Photo: lillian suwanrumpha/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

The latest clash came a day after thousands of Hong Kongers formed human chains throughout the city in a peaceful pledge of solidarity.

It was a much different scene on Saturday. Adding to the turbulence: The city’s subway operator stopped services at multiple stations. The MTR system has been the lifeblood of the protest movement, allowing demonstrators to move around the city with relative ease. But Chinese state media has criticized the subway operator, MTR Corp., for being soft on protesters.

Carrie Ng, a Hong Kong resident, got a notification from her MTR app Saturday morning saying some subway stations near the protest site would be closed. With such short notice, she rushed to get the last available train to her destination. “It is the government who is doing the uncooperative movement today,” said the 33-year-old Ms. Ng. “This is so disturbing.”

She said she suspected the MTR’s decision was motivated by the government’s attempt to discourage people from protesting. “If Carrie Lam was meant to mend fences, why would the MTR stations be shut down today?” Ms. Ng said. “This is just her excuse.”

In Mrs. Lam’s Instagram post, she said her administration wanted to take the opportunity to start a dialogue without division between class, color or age. “We must continue to listen to views with our hearts,” she said.

On Saturday, protesters gathered in Kwun Tong—across the harbor from Hong Kong island on the east side of Kowloon—through the afternoon, setting up barricades, digging out paving stones for ammunition, and donning gas masks and other equipment. Around 4:30 p.m. police held up a sign reading: “Stop charging or we use force.”

Shortly after, a glass bottle flew into the air and smashed on the pavement near the police. Within minutes, the police rushed into the crowd, moving protesters further away from the Ngau Tau Kok Police station. A few minutes later, police raised another sign warning of tear gas.

As the sun was setting, protesters pointed blue and white lasers at police officers, who continued firing tear gas into the crowd. Protesters scattered momentarily but repeatedly returned to hold their ground.

Many protesters focused on the new program of installing surveillance light posts and the backlash that has ensued from it.

“If they keep monitoring us, there’s no difference from China, and we’re not yet China,” said Ms. Chow, a 20-year-old student who declined to give her first name.

The smell of burned electrical wires hung in the air on Sheung Yuet Road, where protesters sawed down a smart lamp post and tore out its insides, along with the contents of about another dozen. They also burned one lamp post.

Protesters build barriers as they block a road Saturday. Photo: lillian suwanrumpha/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

A 29-year-old protester with a tool kit said he was looking for any of the pole’s sensors that had been exposed to take home and examine, to determine what the poles do with the data they collect. But he was too late—all of the sensors had already been taken by police walking the street with evidence bags, or perhaps other protesters.

Lok, a part-time teacher in her 40s, handed out aluminum foil to protesters advising them to wrap their wallets to avoid being identified by their local IDs, which contain contactless chips.

Ms. Lok said she read online about the foil and decided to come out to the protest with two 130-meter rolls. “Wrap your whole wallet,” she told protesters.

Kwun Tong resident Kelvin Lee marched with protesters in a face mask and badminton racket on his way to play a match. He said locals were concerned about the new lamp posts equipped with cameras and were glad protesters were bringing attention to the program.

“Before it starts is a good time to raise your hand and say we have a problem with it” said the 40-year-old IT worker. He said he didn’t want to see protesters destroy the public infrastructure without giving the government a chance to respond, but “maybe if it’s a last resort, it will have to happen.”

—Natasha Khan and Joyu Wang contributed to this article.

Write to Steven Russolillo at steven.russolillo@wsj.com and Eun-Young Jeong at Eun-Young.Jeong@wsj.com

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The Amazon is burning because the world eats so much meat - CNN

The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle. The practice is on the rise, encouraged by Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's populist pro-business president, who is backed by the country's so-called "beef caucus."

While this may be business as usual for Brazil's beef farmers, the rest of the world is looking on in horror.

So, for those wondering how they could help save the rainforest, known as "the planet's lungs" for producing about 20% of the world's oxygen, the answer may be simple. Eat less meat.

Brazil is the world's largest exporter of beef, providing close to 20% of the total global exports, according the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) -- a figure that could rise in the coming years.

Last year the country shipped 1.64 million tonnes of beef, the highest volume in history, according to the Brazilian Beef Exporters Association (Abiec), an association of more than 30 Brazilian meat-packing companies.

The growth of Brazil's beef industry has been driven in part by strong demand from Asia -- mostly China and Hong Kong. These two markets alone accounted for nearly 44% of all beef exports from Brazil in 2018, according to the USDA.

And a trade deal struck in June between South America's Mercosur bloc of countries and the European Union could open up even more markets for Brazil's beef-packing industry.

Speaking after the agreement as announced, the head of Abiec, Antônio Camardelli, said the pact could help Brazil gain access to prospective new markets, like Indonesia and Thailand, while boosting sales with existing partners, like the EU. "A deal of this magnitude is like an invitation card for speaking with other countries and trade blocs," Camardelli told Reuters in July.

Once implemented, the deal will lift a 20% levy on beef imports into the EU.

But, on Friday, Ireland said it was ready to block the deal unless Brazil took action on the Amazon.

In a statement Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar described as "Orewellian" Bolsonaro's attempt to blame the fires on environmental groups. Varadkar said that Ireland will monitor Brazil's environmental actions to determine whether to block the Mercosur deal, which is two years away.

He added Irish and European farmers could not be told to use fewer pesticides and respect biodiversity when trade deals were being made with countries not subjected to "decent environmental, labor and product standards."

In June, before the furor over the rainforest began, the Irish Farmers Association called on Ireland not to ratify the deal, arguing its terms would disadvantage European beef farmers.

Deal or no deal, Brazil's beef industry is projected to continue expanding, buoyed by natural resources, grassland availability and global demand, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

And, with that growth, comes steep environmental costs.

Brazil's space research center (INPE) said this week that the number of fires in Brazil is 80% higher than last year. More than half are in the Amazon region, spelling disaster for the local environment and ecology.

Alberto Setzer, a senior scientist at INPE, told CNN that the burning can range from a small-scale agricultural practice, to new deforestation for mechanized and modern agribusiness projects.

Farmers wait until the dry season to start burning and clearing areas so their cattle can graze, but this year's destruction has been described as unprecedented. Environmental campaigners blame this uptick on Bolsonaro, who they say has encouraged ranchers, farmers, and loggers to exploit and burn the rainforest like never before with a sense of impunity.

Bolsonaro has dismissed accusations of responsibility for the fires, but a clear shift seems to be underway.

And if saving the rainforest isn't enough to convince carnivores to stop eating Brazilian beef -- the greenhouse gas emissions the cattle create may be.

Beef is responsible for 41% of livestock greenhouse gas emissions, and that livestock accounts for 14.5% of total global emissions. And methane -- the greenhouse gas cattle produce from both ends -- is 25 times more potent that carbon dioxide.

An alarming report released last year by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, said changing our diets could contribute 20% of the effort needed to keep global temperatures from rising 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Namely, eating less meat.

Still, global consumption of beef and veal is set to rise in the next decade according to projections from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

A joint report predicted global production would increase 16% between 2017 and 2027 to meet demand.

The majority of that expansion will be in developing countries, like Brazil.

CNN's Arnaud Siad contributed to this report from London.

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Fires are raging in the Amazon forest. Here's how you can help slow all rainforest loss - CNN

It's not the only major forest under assault. Nearly half of the world's forests that stood when humans started farming are now gone, and each year an additional 32 million acres are destroyed, according to the nonprofit Rainforest Alliance. The biggest reason is expansion of agriculture into forested areas. In Brazil it's cattle ranching, soy production and logging, according to Nigel Sizer, tropical forest ecologist and chief program officer with the Rainforest Alliance. "It is responsible for 80% to 90% of the loss of tropical forests around the world." Environmental groups say these activities can be slowed or done in a much more sustainable way.

"There has been a lot of analysis and satellite data that shows there is so much land already cleared - a lot abandoned or very poorly used and managed that we could use to grow food on," says Sizer. "We don't need to be clearing new forests to do this in Brazil."

Here's what you can do to help slow forest loss.

Help reforestation and slow deforestation

You can help reforest parts of the world through the Rainforest Trust and Rainforest Alliance. The Rainforest Trust allows you to restrict your donations to a specific project. The Rainforest Alliance says 100% of your donation will help stop deforestation in Brazil right now. They are working with local groups at the forefront of this fight. Part of the Alliance's work strives to make Brazil's current ranches and farms more productive.

The Arbor Day Foundation also has a program to help save tropical rain forests which provide habitat for some 50% of the world's plants and animals.

You can donate to any of these nonprofits by clicking on the button above, or clicking here.

Make sure products you buy are "rainforest safe"

Products featuring the "Rainforest Alliance Certified™" seal come from farms that passed audits and met standards for sustainability. Thousands of products have earned the seal -- including coffee, chocolate and bananas.

If you're buying tropical wood products, look for the label "Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)." That's the major certification system for forest and paper products, according to Sizer.

The nonprofit makes sure that the wood is not contributing to illegal logging and deforestation. You can also donate to the group. "Look out for that when you have that option," Sizer said.

Take steps to live sustainably

As major forests decrease in size, carbon and greenhouse gases have increased in the atmosphere. But you can help slow that trend.

"Think about greenhouse gas emissions -- driving less, buy a more fuel efficient car," Sizer says. He also recommends adjusting your thermostats by just a couple of degrees. "It makes a huge difference and saves money as well."

You can also buy carbon offsets. "If you have to fly for work often -- you can buy these offsets by making a small contribution to an organization that is planting trees, sucking up carbon that's being emitted when you fly. These things really add up."

About 20% of the Amazon has already been destroyed, and that's what scares Sizer. "The newest science now says if we deforest, if there's a clearing of more than about 30% to 40% of the Amazon rainforest, it will start to dry out. We'll pass an irreversible tipping point."

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Wildfires rage in the Amazon: Live updates - CNN

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As images and news of the fire spread, many activists are demanding accountability from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

Here's why: When Bolsonaro was running for president, he made campaign promises to restore the economy by exploring the Amazon's economic potential. Now, environmental organizations say he has encouraged ranchers, farmers and loggers to exploit and burn the rainforest like never before with a sense of impunity.

(Remember: Environmental organizations and researchers say these wildfires were set by cattle ranchers and loggers who wanted to clear and utilize the land.)

The pro-business Bolsonaro has hamstrung Brazil's environmental enforcement agency with budget cuts amounting to $23 million — official data sent to CNN by Observatorio do Clima shows the enforcement agency's operations have gone down since Bolsonaro was sworn in.

What Bolsonaro is saying: Bolsonaro has dismissed accusations of responsibility for the fires. On Wednesday, he speculated that the Amazon fires could have been caused by nonprofit organizations who are suffering from lack of funding, to "generate negative attention against me and against the Brazilian government."

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