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Amazon deforestation is driven by criminal networks, report finds

A new report by Human Rights Watch finds that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is a lucrative business largely driven by criminal networks that threaten and attack government officials, forest defenders and indigenous people who try to stop them.

  • Guardian
  • Amazon
  • Human Rights Watch
  • Amazon deforestation
  • criminal networks
  • Forest defenders
  • indigenous people