International outcry prompted Norway and Germany to halt donations to Brazil's Amazon fund
Reports stated that according to data from the country's space agency the Amazon rainforest in brazil is experiencing a record amount of fires this year more than 74,000 outbreaks so far an 84% increase from the same period in 2018. Meanwhile the National Institute for Space Research (IPNE) said it detected more than 74,000 fires between January 1 and August 20 the highest since it began recording in 2013. Accordingly there have been more than 9,500 forest fires since August 15, mostly in the Amazon region.
Furthermore in response to growing international pressure to deal with this crisis, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who had initially said that some non-governmental organizations had started the fire after the government withdrew their funding, he later said that farmers could be responsible for starting the fires.
Perhaps NGO Greenpeace said that the wildfires were so intense that smoke loomed over the city of Sao Paulo, more than a thousand miles away, plunging the city into literal darkness around 3 pm local time on August 19. Moreover the satellite images also showed brazil's most northern state, Roraima, covered in dark smoke, while neighboring Amazonas state declared an emergency over the fires.