Greenpeace activists raised a four-metre statue of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday (October 7) to denounce his environmental policies.
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The statue was erected in the burnt wetlands of Pantanal, in Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul region.
Twelve per cent of the Pantanal wetlands — the world's largest wetlands and a UNESCO heritage site — was devastated between January and August 2020.
The region has been suffering from a historic drought which makes fire particularly difficult to control and the accelerating, illegal, deforestaton of the area is compounding the issue, Greenpeace said.
