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Originally Posted by Essay
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Interesting part of a BBC special
I will have to get broadband
BBC World Service - The Amazon Paradox
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A short distance away, police cars stop at a site where row after row of open air ovens are being used to burn wood for charcoal.
Checks reveal that more than the permitted number of dome-shaped ovens has been built, so two are destroyed on the same day.
This operation on the ground in the Amazon has been continuing for two months, and police chief, Sergio Rovani, who is responsible for tackling environmental crimes in Para, insists it is getting results.
According to the official statistics, Arc of Fire has recovered enough illegal wood to fill 1500 trucks, and 1600 hundred charcoal furnaces have been destroyed. Many fines have also been imposed.
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somehow sad and ironic.
