Rainforest Mafias: How Violence and Impunity Fuel Deforestation in Brazil's

This report documents how illegal logging by criminal networks and resulting forest fires are connected to acts of violence and intimidation against forest defenders and the state’s failure to investigate and prosecute these crimes. 

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