Brazil environment officials arrested for logging

[dipsydoodle]

Police in Brazil have arrested at least 70 people suspected of illegal logging in the Amazon - including officials employed to protect the rainforest.

Several environmental officials in Mato Grosso state are accused of providing false licences for the extraction of timber from protected areas.

Loggers, landowners and forest managers have also been charged.

Police estimate that the illegal logging operation has caused damage amounting to about $500m (£345m).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8698451.stm

[Peace Patriot]

1. And when do we see BP execs and their government enablers arrested? nt

[Judi Lynn]

2. It's good to see there was someone still clean and brave enough to get these guys.

Hope his/her work will serve as a beacon to encourage other good people to tackle these murderous monsters, too.

Recommending.

[ChangoLoa]

3. Typical

"Zamuros cuidando carne" as we say in Latin America or "vultures looking after meat". Same for the police administrating the guns and drugs markets in the cities.