HOUSTON (AP) - Never before had so much lumber been denied entry at a U.S. port on evidence that it was harvested illegally. Homeland Security investigators in Houston, acting on intelligence from ...
Dozens of uncontacted people deep in the Peruvian Amazon have been captured on camera just several miles from a number of logging areas, a human rights group said, and they are believed to be from the ...
Police stormed a dozen sawmills in Brazil's Amazon rainforest in a raid on Tuesday (June 2). They arrested about 30 people accused of involvement in an illegal logging ring. They say a criminal group ...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists ...
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New figures coming from the Brazilian government suggest illegal logging has taken more trees from the Amazon rainforest than previously expected. Satellite data from Brazil’s National Institute for ...
Brazil could improve sustainable forest management, reduce illegal logging, and perhaps cuts deforestation by introducing coherent policies for timber operations in the Amazon rainforest argues a new ...
Loggers have entered the Trombetas River Biological Reserve in Oriximiná, in Brazil’s Pará state, to develop a forest management project that has divided the local Quilombola community. The reserve is ...