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Nearly six years have passed since Indigenous forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara was killed and his colleague Laércio Guajajara was wounded in what authorities believe was an ambush by illegal loggers in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Yet the two suspects charged…
International police organization Interpol has unveiled an ambitious new initiative to combat the criminal networks profiting billions of dollars annually from illegal deforestation. The global law enforcement effort, announced Wednesday in Bogotá, Colombia, targets illegal logging operations, timber trafficking rings,…
Six Just Stop Oil activists face up to 10 years in prison after being convicted of public nuisance for their 2022 climate protest on the M25 motorway, raising questions about inconsistent application of legal defenses in environmental cases. The activists…
Brazilian Federal Police have charged 31 individuals in what authorities are calling the country’s largest carbon credit fraud operation to date. The criminal scheme, uncovered through “Operation Greenwashing,” involved fraudulent carbon credits while simultaneously laundering illegal timber from the Amazon…
Judicial corruption across Amazon nations is severely hampering efforts to combat environmental crimes, creating a culture of impunity that threatens the world’s largest rainforest. From the Andean republics to Brazil, compromised court systems are failing to hold environmental criminals accountable,…
Three climate activists from Just Stop Oil have been cleared of all charges related to their controversial protest at Stonehenge, where they sprayed orange powder on the ancient stone circle just one day before the 2024 summer solstice. The defendants—74-year-old…
