Brazil claims success in Amazon logging crackdown

Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO --
Satellite photos show that Amazon destruction has dropped sharply since the onset of a massive crackdown on illegal logging by Brazil's government.

Brazil's National Space Research Institute says the region's deforestation rate dropped by 80 percent in March over February, when federal police launched a massive operation shutting down clandestine sawmills.

Police inspector Alvaro Palharini told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper Wednesday that 4,000 trucks, 19 chain saws, 10 guns and 95 vehicles have been seized in the operation.

Still, environmentalists question month-to-month comparisons, preferring to compare monthly data to the same period of the previous year.

 

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