Sentences with phrase «illegal loggers dead»

For decades, the lush Amazon rainforest in Brazil has served as the backdrop to escalating tensions between an indigenous population which calls the region home, and illegal loggers dead - set on exploiting its natural wealth — though the worst of the resulting atrocities may be at hand.

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Later, after the Brazilian federal government and the state of Rondí» nia enacted laws to protect the remaining territory, the Suruí themselves began striking deals with illegal loggers and selling the wood for a pittance — largely because, in economic terms, the forest was worth more dead than alive.