Sentences with phrase «of illegal loggers»

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.

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In recent decades, however, illegal loggers, irresponsible farmers, and gold miners have begun to raze large swaths of once - pristine rainforest in pursuit of short - term profit.

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

Even without the palm oil, it faces a myriad of other threats, from raids by bush meat hunters trapping and shooting primates, antelopes and elephants, to incursions from illegal loggers and miners prospecting for iron ore.

Many of these roads will slice into Earth's last wildernesses, where they bring an influx of destructive loggers, hunters and illegal miners.

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.

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.

«This legislation provides relief to illegal loggers, not musicians,» said Lafcadio Cortesi of Rainforest Action Network.

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.

Long - ruling Prime Minister Hun Sen, whom many consider a backer of the biggest logging group, Try Pheap, recently said he had authorized rocket attacks on illegal loggers.

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.

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?

This lack of legally recognized rights leaves communities vulnerable to losing their land to settlers, cattle ranchers, illegal loggers, or companies — and it leaves forests vulnerable to being cut down.

We are very concerned... because the territory of this tigress and its cubs is being rapidly cleared by two global paper companies, palm oil plantations, encroachers and illegal loggers.

Reports emerge of wartime loggers» return to Liberia as government inaction on illegal permits encourages exploitation of communities

Their case shot to the world's attention last September, when four of their number were killed, allegedly by illegal loggers: Edwin Chota, Jorge Ríos Pérez, Leoncio Quinticima and Francisco Pinedo.