The Amazon's Silent Crisis: Night Terrors

Last edited 28 October 2014 at 11:51am

Publication date:

15 October, 2014

In August and September 2014, Greenpeace used covert GPS locator beacons to monitor logging trucks in the Brazilian state of Pará. Night after night, logging trucks smuggle illegal timber out of the Amazon rainforest to sawmills that supply global markets.

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gp_amz_silent_crimefile_final_dps.pdf

Article tagged as: amazon, brazil, forests, illegal logging, logging, rainforest, timber

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