The Environmental Crime Crisis

Brazilian Amazon: Law enforcement operations cause 76% reduction in deforestation Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 1988-2013 Thousand square kilometres

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Surface of Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area

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2010

2013

Sources: Mongabay.com, May 2014.

More still needs to be done

Forest disturbance

Forest disturbance location registered in March 2014

Centre points of 5 km x 5 km areas that were detected with a significant loss of forest greenness cover (greater than 40%) over the previous 12 months

5 Km

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Sources: NASA, Quarterly Indicator of Cover Change (QUICC), accessed through Mongabay.com, May 2014.

Figure 20: Brazil managed to reduce deforestation in Brazil primarily through a targeted and strict enforcement effort using satel- lite images to detect recent logging, followed by direct action by SWAT teams and investigators also of companies and networks, dropping deforestation by 64–78%,

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