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Environmental crime in the

Amazon

Karla Mendes

2017 SEJ Conference

Environmental crime in

Brazil’s Amazon

Karla Mendes

2017 SEJ Conference

Amazon’s billion dollar gold rush

leaves trails of toxinsMining dredges in

Madeira river

Rondonia state

Credit: Karla Mendes

http://www.thisisplace.org/i/?id=ae9e4349-258a-4463-ad1a-657d34329174

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Shady slaughter houses, ‘cow laundering’

drive spike in Amazon deforestationSlaughter house in

Boca do Acre,

Amazonas state

Credit: Karla Mendes

http://www.thisisplace.org/i/?id=f1ce08c3-eed7-45b3-8739-351b00adbdde&cid=social_20170704_73162497&adbid=882196374128803841&adbpl=tw&adbpr=727524717121409024

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Amazon protectors: Brazil’s indigenous

people to stave off loggers

Cr

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Inside Amazon reserve, high-end chocolate thrives with forest

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Rural Amazon violence rises amid

bureaucratic mass over land titles

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Brazil ranked mostly deadly nation for

land activists as impunity reigns

"Boca do Acre,

land without law.

Order who has money,

obey who does not."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-landrights-politics/brazil-ranked-worlds-most-deadly-nation-for-land-activists-as-impunity-reigns-idUSKBN19Y1NL

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-landrights-politics/brazil-ranked-worlds-most-deadly-nation-for-land-activists-as-impunity-reigns-idUSKBN19Y1NL

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