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Letter: Cops can save forests

Published 10 May 2006

From Edward Milner, acacia@dial.pipex.com

If, as William Laurance suggests, 80 per cent of Brazilian Amazonia logging is illegal (15 April, p 24), wouldn’t the most cost-effective way of counteracting global warming be to bolster Brazil’s law enforcement, as, I gather, has been done successfully in Mato Grosso State?

Issue no. 2551 published 13 May 2006

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