Sentences with phrase «illegal loggers in»

• Investigate the alleged corrupt links between public officials and illegal loggers in Ucayali and prosecute where corruption is identified.

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Reuters last week published photographs of Amazon Indians who captured, stripped and beat illegal loggers on their reservation in Para.

Researchers suspect that the newly contacted people were fleeing illegal loggers and cocaine traffickers in part of their home territory in a Peruvian park.

Updated, Nov. 16, 12:07 p.m. One week ago, two members of a four - person team patrolling for illegal loggers and wildlife poachers in the Preah Vihear Protected Forest in northwestern Cambodia were shot and killed in their sleep, as Mongabay reported.

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.

The program will involve training young people in the State — often recruited by illegal loggers and poachers — in sustainable economic activities such as bee keeping and mushroom farming.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has ebbed significantly in recent years due to better monitoring by the federal authorities and a series of major sting operations against illegal loggers.

It's particularly repugnant that this giveaway to illegal loggers is being justified in the name of music.»

His father - in - law, Khun Thong, is one of Cambodia's most prolific illegal loggers.

The Rainforest Foundation UK and the Global Canopy Programme are taking a similar approach in Congo and Cameroon, respectively, helping communities map their lands to protect against illegal loggers and other forms of encroachment.

They live outdoors in all weathers, for two weeks at a time, and face a daily battle of tracking illegal loggers and poachers, who are often armed.

According to a representative from the Guajajara community in northeastern Brazil, a group of illegal loggers recently captured a young indian girl from a neighboring uncontacted tribe and burned her to death.

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.

Just last week it came out that the civil unrest in Madagascar was having some spill over into the green sphere, with illegal loggers and poachers filling the void.

I wonder how Carlos Minc's statement that «we're going to blow all 100 [of the worst illegal loggers] out of the water and then some» will fly when another government agency is in his sights?

In recent years, several forest activists have been attacked and even killed by illegal loggers and other special interests who broker deals with corrupt local politicians and courts.

Via kind tipster Jamie Woolley and an article on Greenpeace More on Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Brazil Announces Plan to Slow Amazon Deforestation by 70 % Amazon Deforestation Grows in August, Brazil Says Could Stop in 2015 Amazon Condoms To Preserve Forests and Reduce Imports in Brazil Brazil to Develop Satellite to Monitor Deforestation, Urban Expansion Brazilian Banks, Forbidden to Give Loans to Illegal Loggers

The Brazilian plan rests in part on using satellites, laws and police to combat illegal loggers and ranchers.