Brazil’s populist president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed non-governmental organisations may be responsible for burning down the Amazon rainforest as the wildfires raging across the region prompted an outpouring of anger at his stewardship of the environment. “On the question of burning in the Amazon, which in my opinion may have been powered by NGOs because they lost money, what is the intention? To bring problems to Brazil,” Mr Bolsonaro said.