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Brazil laundering illegal timber on a 'massive and growing scale'

2014-05-15 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Illegally logged timber in Brazil is being laundered on a massive and growing scale and then sold on to unwitting buyers in the UK, US, Europe and China, Greenpeace claimed on Thursday. After a two-year investigation, the environmental campaign group says it has uncovered evidence of systematic abuse and a flawed monitoring system that contradicts the Brazilian government's claims to be coping with the problem of deforestation in the Amazon. In a report released on Thursday, Greenpeace cited...

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