Illegal logging reaches Amazon’s untouched core, ‘terrifying’ research shows

Mongabay
Sep 15, 2021, 5:45 pm181 pts
One of the main fears about the Brazilian Amazon is beginning to materialize: logging is starting to move from the periphery of the rainforest toward the core of the biome, groundbreaking new research shows. Tracking cut trees through satellite mapping data, the research found that logging activities cleared…

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