Major Logging Operation Shut in the Amazon

[Eugene]

Major Logging Operation Shut in the Amazon

By MICHAEL ASTOR, Associated Press Writer
Mon Apr 10, 6:29 PM ET

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Environmental authorities shut down an illegal logging operation
in the Amazon on Monday, confiscating dozens of felled tropical hardwood trees in an area
that only recently was pristine rain forest.

The Norte Wood logging company was operating without a license in the Amazonas state town
of Novo Aripuana, some 1,600 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro, according to Wallace Alencar,
an agent with the state's environmental authority Ipaam.

The agency seized 17,655 cubic feet of wood and arrested one man in the raid. It was the
largest seizure of illegal hardwood this year in Amazonas, the country's largest state.

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Over the past three years, loggers from the neighboring state of Para have been moving
to Novo Aripuana after having largely deforested the southern edge of their home state.

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060410/ap_on_sc/brazil_amazon_logging

[roguevalley]

1. they should shoot them on sight. SIGH! I hate that it comes to this

but it might be a world saving thing to save the forests.