Amazon Fires

Bolsonaro said that DiCaprio had earmarked a part of the $500,000 "for the people who were setting fires"

Premier did not have any proof related to actor financing the environmental catastrophe

Agricultural expansion deeper into Amazon forest areas would likely spur more fires in the fragile ecosystem

Fires in Brazil's sprawling Amazon rainforest have receded slightly since President Jair Bolsonaro sent military

Bolsonaro reacted by blasting Macron for having a "colonialist mentality"

Pope Francis urges world's 1.3 billion Catholics to pray for the fires to be extinguished at the earliest

Official figures show 78,383 forest fires recorded in Brazil this year, the highest number since 2013

Official figures show nearly 73,000 forest fires were recorded in Brazil in the first eight months of the year

Wildfires are a natural phenomenon happening in forests from the Amazon to our own in Galiyat