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Public opinion on the Brazilian government's handling of illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in 2019

Characteristic	Strongly agree	Somewhat agree	Somewhat disagree	Strongly disagree	Do not know / No answer
President Jair Bolsonaro and the Federal Government should increase control measures to prevent illegal deforestation in the Amazon	90%	6%	1%	2%	0%
Illegal deforestation in the Amazon is worrying	88%	5%	2%	4%	0%
President Jair Bolsonaro and the Federal Government should adopt a zero tolerance policy against illegal deforestation in the Amazon	83%	8%	3%	5%	1%
The National Congress should assume more responsibility to achieve zero illegal deforestation in the Amazon	81%	8%	4%	5%	1%

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Release date

August 2019

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Region

Brazil

Survey time period

August 14 to 16, 2019

Number of respondents

1,000 respondents

Age group

16 years and older

Method of interview

Telephone interview

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On a survey conducted in August 2019, a vast majority of Brazilian respondents demanded more control measures from the Bolsonaro Administration to prevent illegal deforestation in the Amazon. When asked whether they agreed with the sentence "President Jair Bolsonaro and the Federal Government should increase control measures to prevent illegal deforestation in the Amazon", 90 percent of respondents in Brazil strongly agreed.

In that same survey, up to 83 percent of respondents answered that the Brazilian government should adopt a zero tolerance policy towards illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. In contrast, only six percent of respondents somewhat or strongly disagreed that illegal deforestation in the Amazon is worrisome.