So here are very real pictures taken by Araquém Alcântara, highly regarded brazilian photographer who's known for covering Brazil’s forests, especially Amazônia for long years.
"I was there and saw it. And I photographed. I'm an eyewitness. The Amazon is my creative matrix. There have been more than fifty trips and expeditions. Walking, backpacking, by boat and car. I've climbed Pico da Neblina twice, I've stepped where no one stepped, I've done four books about the forest and its people, I won prizes, I've published hundreds of stories in this 49 years of journalism and photography. And now, with recent events I'm full of revolt. We need to raise the tone. How can the country's president suspend financial support from Norway and Germany - the Amazon Fund - which has already approved 103 projects worth R$ 1.86 billion and has disbursed R$ 1.3 billion since 2008 when it was created? The worst is that this fund is managed by the Brazilian government. European money for free, under Brazil’s control. I can't understand: Brazil has no money to pay for scholarships and for feeding recruits. Press reports say that Amazon's deforestation has grown by 15% (5,054 sq km in one year, according to the Imazon NGO Deforestation Alert System). Deter, Inpe's system indicates a much higher percentage, 50% (6,833 sq km). The intensification of deforestation is real, it's a objective thing done by satellites. And Bolsonaro says the data isn’t real, that we don't need foreign money. Free deforestation is what he wants. Poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade once said “there will be no next day... the emptiness of the night, the emptiness of everything will be the next day” And just like that there will be no more country."