Sentences with phrase «on illegal loggers»

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.

The Brazilian government has been stepping up their pressure on illegal loggers and cattle ranchers by halting bank loans and confiscating products.

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

The community on the right continues to fight constantly against illegal loggers.

But illegal loggers continue to fell lucrative rosewood while growing populations encroach on pristine rainforest and its wildlife, hunting bush meat.

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.

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

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