Mr Macron has has downplayed any expectations of a unified front from the leaders of the G7 democracies.
Mrs Merkel said in her weekly video message: "Emmanuel Macron is right - our house is burning, and we can not be silent". He stressed that rainforests produced 20 percent of the oxygen and were considered the lungs of the Earth. "It is an worldwide crisis", Macron tweeted Thursday.
Trump tweeted on Friday evening that that he had spoken with Bolsonaro about the fires and trade between the two countries.
Trump tweeted that he spoke with President Jair Bolsonaro and touted "very exciting" trade prospects between the US and Brazil, adding that the relationship between the two nations was "perhaps stronger than ever". As of August 20, there were fires burning in the rainforest in four Brazilian states: Amazonas, Rondonia, Mato Grosso and Para, according to the U.S. National Aeronautical and Space Administration, NASA.
German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze added the trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, the economic and political bloc comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, "cannot be justified without guarantees that the rainforest will be protected".
"Despite these obstacles, failure to reach an effective solution will be very harmful to Brazil and many other countries around the world", Walt says.
European leaders have already threatened to tear up a trade deal with South America, reflecting the growing global dismay and anger with Brazil.
Bolsonaro has pushed back against some of the concern.
"They are trying to denounce Macron and Merkel and the Norwegians and the worldwide press and the NGOs as a coalition that is set on suspending Brazilian sovereignty over the Amazon and it's our duty to fight back".
President Trump extended an offer of aid to Brazil's president on Friday should the government of the South American nation need help containing massive forest fires sweeping across the Amazon rainforest.
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He also rebuked the idea of worldwide sanctions. Or should the worldwide community have a role in safeguarding the world's most precious forest, which scientists say is essential to curbing the destabilising effects of global warming?
World leaders were not alone in reacting to Bolsonaro's approach to the wildfires. "The sensationalist tone he used does nothing to solve the problem".
"The tendency is that", Mr Bolsonaro told reporters in Brazil's capital Brasilia, when asked if he was considering sending the army to fight the fires.
Fires across the southern Amazon are sending up plumes of smoke that are visible from space.
Outside forces are pointing their fingers at Bolsonaro, who has been accused of opening up the Amazon to illegal logging, farming and mining to boost the economy. "Being Brazilian, our wealth is invaluable both in terms of biodiversity and natural resources".
He instead attributes the blazes to increased drought, and accuses environmental groups and NGOs of whipping up an "environmental psychosis" to harm Brazil's economic interests.
In the speech, he attributed the fires to the dry season in the Amazon rainforest region, a change from his previous stance. "In rainier years, the fires are less intense". But some of the most striking - and viral - pictures shared by social media users are not all they seem.
An estimated 99 percent of the Amazon's fires are started by people, 'either on objective or by accident, ' according to Alberto Setzer, a senior scientist at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE). More than half were in the Amazon region.
The critical part for working to combat these fires is early detection because a fire, when it's caught early, is much easier to fight than one that only gets noticed on the second, third or 10th day it's been burning, and now that small fire that may have started on a farm at the edge of the Amazon has spread to provide an active fire front that would take you days to walk, even if you didn't have to put out the fire.
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