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Brazil's illegal logging hard to combat

Associated Press: Federal agents swooped in to close sawmills and confiscate wood in a government crackdown on illegal logging less than three months ago. But now tractors are moving logs again in this Amazon town and locals are back to turning wood scraps into charcoal, an example of the difficulty of stamping out illegal cutting. "It's starting up again, but it's not like it was, and nobody knows for how long," said Zenito Santiago de Souza, 44, who lost his job in the government ... Read »
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