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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.
2 ημέρες πριν · Illegal logging in the Amazon jumped by 19% over the past year, according to a new report.Between August 2022 and July 2023, some 126,000 hectares, or 311,000 acres, of forest were cleared ...
15 Σεπ 2021 · The satellite-based mapping of seven of Brazil’s nine Amazonian states showed a “terrifying” pattern of logging advance that cleared an area three times the size of the city of São Paulo between August 2019 and July 2020 alone.
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 operation...
• 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.
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%).
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
