International outcry prompted Norway and Germany to halt donations to Brazil's Amazon fund
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