The director of the Brazilian National Space Research Institute (INPE) has been sacked for presenting results from satellite imagery showing severe deforestation under the current Government, and then arguing their accuracy following official criticism. The data was just added to a dashboard on a government website - no big splash was made of the news, but still it caught the government's attention. The President and ministers said it was all 'lies' and that INPE was in the pocket of a 'foreign not for profit group'. The environment minister is claiming many of those spots have been showing as deforestation for years in 'their data' - but has not released the data nor the methodology to refute the INPE claims.
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