The Environmental Crime Crisis
Brazilian Amazon: Law enforcement operations cause 76% reduction in deforestation Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 1988-2013 Thousand square kilometres
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15
10
5
Surface of Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area
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1988
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1995
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2005
2010
2013
Sources: Mongabay.com, May 2014.
More still needs to be done
Forest disturbance
Forest disturbance location registered in March 2014
Centre points of 5 km x 5 km areas that were detected with a significant loss of forest greenness cover (greater than 40%) over the previous 12 months
5 Km
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Sources: NASA, Quarterly Indicator of Cover Change (QUICC), accessed through Mongabay.com, May 2014.
Figure 20: Brazil managed to reduce deforestation in Brazil primarily through a targeted and strict enforcement effort using satel- lite images to detect recent logging, followed by direct action by SWAT teams and investigators also of companies and networks, dropping deforestation by 64–78%,
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