This video is about the Brazilian rainforests and the birds living there.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Brazil: ‘Worst’ deforestation gang broken up
Thursday 28th August 2014
OFFICIALS said today that Brazil had broken up a deforestation gang which the authorities considered the worst offenders operating in the Amazon basin.
The gang had been invading public land in northern Para state, burning down forest, dividing the land into parcels and selling it, federal police said.
The Brazilian Environmental Institute estimated that the criminal group had been responsible for environmental crimes to the tune of $230 million (£138.7m).
“The suspects are considered to be the greatest destroyers of the Brazilian Amazon currently active,” the institute said.
They should be charged with invading public land, environmental crimes, forgery, criminal association and money-laundering, it added.
Arrest orders are being served in the states of Sao Paulo, Parana and Mato Grosso, police said.
If convicted, the suspects face more than 50 years in prison.
Police did not say how many arrests they are expecting to carry out during the operation.
The destruction of large areas of rainforest in Brazil to provide pasture for beef herds has been positively affected by “zero deforestation agreements” between the Brazilian government and ranchers: here.
Sounds like good news, and the authorities are finally cracking down🙂
Yes, I hope more of this kind of gangsters will be caught.
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