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Fuelled by high demand for timber products, legal and illegal logging are important drivers of Amazon rainforest destruction. In 1996, Asian companies invested more than US$ 500 million in Brazil’s timber industry, mainly because they were keenly aware of the speed at which the forests in Asia are being cut 1.
• The logging industry in the Amazon is highly wasteful. Seventy percent of all logged timber ends up as unusable fragments or sawdust. • According to the Brazilian government, approximately 100 million hectares of land, or 20 percent of the entire Amazon region, is held illegally.
15 Σεπ 2021 · Satellite imagery shows that logging activity is spreading from peripheral areas of the Amazon toward the rainforest’s core, according to groundbreaking research.
25 Απρ 2019 · The businesses are among 27 European and North American companies whose supply chains Amazon Watch and its partner Profundo have connected to illegal logging, mainly through the import of...
Over the past 18 months, Greenpeace has been tracking down illegal logging from its ship, MV Amazon Guardian in remote regions of Amazonas and Para States. The environmental group’s extensive investigations has uncovered hard evidence of U.S. based companies trading with several transnational companies that buy logs from
In 2018, 1889 forest areas in which timber was logged for industrial purposes in the Amazon were registered in the official transport and commercialization control systems. These areas are mainly located in the state of Mato Grosso (42%).
17 Σεπ 2019 · In July 2019, unknown arsonists burned two bridges on one of the main roads of the Amazon region, in the municipality of Placas, Pará state, in apparent retaliation for an anti-logging...
