Report: Brazil authorities turn blind eye to deforestation
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Illegal loggers have destroyed some 18,500 square kilometers (7,100 square miles) of public forests over the past six years in the Brazilian Amazon. Yet the nation's Federal Police mounted only seven operations to investigate this massive loss, according to a new study on environmental crime in the …
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Illegal loggers have destroyed some 18,500 square kilometers (7,100 square miles) of public forests over the past six years in the Brazilian Amazon. Yet the nation's Federal Police mounted only seven operations to investigate this massive loss, according to a new study on environmental crime in the …
A study from Igarapé Institute, a Brazilian think tank, analyzed 302 environmental crime raids carried out by the Federal Police in the Amazon between 2016 and 2021.
Environmental criminals in the Brazilian Amazon destroyed public rainforests equal the size of El Salvador over the past six years, yet the Federal Police - the Brazilian version of the FBI - carried out only seven operations aimed at this massive loss, according to a new study.
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