Coca-Cola Co agreed on Wednesday to sponsor a protected reserve in the Amazon rainforest, joining beer maker Heineken and a growing list of global corporations signing up to the Brazilian government’s “Adopt a Park” program.

Environmentalists say the program, launched by the right-wing government of President Jair Bolsonaro this year, amounts to “greenwashing,” or a cosmetic move aimed at improving the government’s image, at a time when deforestation is surging.

Acting via its Brazilian subsidiary, Coca-Cola is the 8th company to join the program by adopting the Javari-Buriti Area of Relevant Ecological Interest for 658,850 reais ($122,109) for a period of 1 year.

The park occupies 132 square kilometres in the remote western portion of Brazil’s Amazonas state and includes one of the densest formations of Buriti palm forest in the world.

Earlier this month, Heineken pledged 466,900 reais to sponsor a 93 square kilometre Amazon reserve that is home to a traditional community of escaped slaves in Maranhao state.

According to the latest annual data available from government space research agency Inpe, over 11,000 square kilometres were deforested in Brazil’s Amazon in the 12-months though July 2020, an area 14 times the size of New York City.

Environmentalists blame the surge on Bolsonaro, who has weakened environmental enforcement agencies and called for more development in protected areas. Adopt a Park is only an attempt to boost the government’s image, they claim.

“The government should reverse the environmental dismantling … instead of this program which opens up a huge space for greenwashing and doesn’t solve the problem,” said Cristiane Mazzetti, a conservationist with advocacy group Greenpeace Brasil, in a statement.