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PLANET EARTH’S VITAL LUNG BEING HACKED DOWN

9th December 2016

By: Martin Creamer

Creamer Media Editor

  

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The 25 000 inhabitants of Novo Progresso, in the Pará, northern Brazil, rely on illegal logging and mining for survival. This pictures shows one of the few occasions law enforcers are able to burn their trucks and illegally sawn tree trunks on the spot. Most of the time, they are fighting a losing battle. Last year, an area of rainforest more than five times the size of Los Angeles was cut down, which robbed the world of trees that absorb two-billion tons of carbon dioxide a year. Carbon-absorbing trees are hacked down and sold, and the areas they occupied filled with methane-burping cattle. Corruption of law enforcers is so rife that the representatives of the 200 different countries that met in Morocco last month to stop greenhouse-gas emission are despairing.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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