People are deliberately starting fires in effort to illegally deforest land for cattle ranching.

Mr Bolsonaro has been accused of emboldening miners and loggers who deliberately start fires to illegally deforest land.

Wildfires often occur in the dry season in Brazil, but they are also deliberately started in efforts to illegally deforest land for cattle ranching.

A climate change law passed in 2002 set up large penalties for deforesting land.

These were paid by the sale of the deforested lands and of certain detached woodlands.

This had lead to increased imports of palm oil from Indonesia, often produced on deforested land.

Calls for the establishment of a national forestry policy, which will emphasize recovery of deforested land.

Britain is also considering a new law that would fine companies that uses commodities grown on illegally deforested land.

Secondary forests (SFs) regenerating on previously deforested land account for large, expanding areas of tropical forest cover.

Some large food companies say they are working to prevent products grown on deforested land from entering their supply chains.

According to their report, the animal struggled for seven days on the border of the company's deforested land before eventually dying.

Wildfires are common in the dry season in Brazil but are also deliberately set by farmers illegally deforesting land for cattle ranching.

The very general second growth on deforested land where no aid has been given indicates that excellent results will follow slight assistance.

Experts say that fires are not a natural phenomenon in the rainforest, but are usually man-made in order to clear deforested land for pasture.

The report provides a window into so-called cattle laundering, in which steer raised on illegally deforested land are moved between farms to obscure their origins.

The company has been successful in stopping its direct suppliers from deforesting land, the official said, but monitoring indirect suppliers remains a "major challenge".