Brazil getting serious about protecting the rainforest

Brazil getting serious about protecting the rainforest

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Brazilian police have mounted a major operation in the Amazon, seizing what they describe as one of the biggest ever loads of illegally logged timber.
Some 140 officers raided eight illegal sawmills in the state of Para, confiscating 10,000 cubic metres (353,000 cubic feet) of lumber.

The operation marks the start of new government efforts to tackle illegal logging and slow Amazon deforestation.

Figures last month showed the rate of clearances had unexpectedly soared.

"It's one of the biggest operations ever against sawmills," said Ivanette Motta from the government environmental protection agency, Ibama.

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This is a subject I feel very strongly about. The rainforests of South America are not only important to the earth as a dynamic ecological lifeform, they are also the source of shamanic medicinal plants that the West has so far pretty much ignored and does not understand the value of...

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[edit on 14-2-2008 by Silenceisall]