89 Arrested in Alleged Illegal Logging Ring
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Brazilian police said they had broken up the biggest illegal logging operation in the Amazon with the arrests of 89 people, nearly half of them from the government agency charged with protecting the forests from a gang that has allegedly illegally cut an estimated $370 million in Amazon timber since 1990.
The sweep across six states suggested that the government was responding to criticism that it had failed to act to save the Amazon after data showed that the amount of trees felled last year covered an area bigger than New Jersey.
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