Fake documents, real deforestation drive global trade in illegal Amazon timber

Mongabay
Apr 16, 2025, 10:10 am240 pts
“Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal timber from the Brazilian Amazon as legitimate, a fraud known as timber laundering. The testimony was collected by a team from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a…

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