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Greenpeace gives Lula fireman outfit to fight Amazon blazes
0 Comments | AFP, September, 2008
BRASILIA (AFP) — A group of Greenpeace activists gave Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a fireman's outfit Wednesday in a symbolic request asking him to do more to combat forest fires in the Amazon.
The members of the environmental organization had to leave the suit with security after being prevented from walking into Lula's presidential palace to hand it to him personally.
They also left three other fireman's suits for Lula's cabinet chief-of-staff and the agriculture and transport ministers.
"Fires cause are the most aggressive and devastating destruction of the forest," one Greenpeace activist, Marcio Astrini, told reporters.
He explained that farmers and cattle ranchers in the Amazon used fire to clear the land for their activities,...
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