⁍ Brazil will extend the military’s deployment to fight destruction of the Amazon rainforest by five months through April 2021 from its previous November end date.

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⁍ Vice President Hamilton Mourao told reporters that President Jair Bolsonaro would sign a decree by next week to extend the deployment.

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⁍ Bolsonaro deployed the military to the Amazon in May this year, repeating a similar deployment made in 2019 when fires spiked in the region.

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– Brazil’s new right-wing government is making good on a promise to extend the military’s presence in the Amazon rainforest, Reuters reports. Vice President Hamilton Mourao says President Jair Bolsonaro will sign a decree next week to extend the deployment, which began in May and had been scheduled to end in November, through April 2021. “We must continue because we want to enter a virtuous cycle of falling deforestation,” Mourao says. “We are committed to bringing it down and to bring it down we need people out in the field enforcing the law.”