Amazon Updates
Greenpeace is in the Middle Lands right now with the Brazilian
federal environmental agency, IBAMA, and military police uncovering
the illegal mahogany trade. We have worked for several years in
the Amazon collecting data and investigating the illegal mahogany
logging, and now we are offering IBAMA our intelligence and logistical
support to uncover and seize illegal mahogany logs. Here is the
latest update from the jungle.
25 October 2001
Tucuma, South of Para state
The sky is dark and hazy, so no flights for the morning. Our
plans have been delayed for another day.
Manuel, our dear logistics coordinator, is gaining some new white
hair with all these changes. Being in charge of the logistics
in a place where what you can do is little in the face of the
difficult reality on the ground.
Not much is going on...just waiting and trying to keep our spirits
up. We did all the shopping and preparations for our trip into
the jungle and hopefully we will be able to set up our camp tomorrow
morning.
At 3pm, Manuel left with a crew of Dutch journalists to Humaita,
one of the illegal mahogany ports at the Xingu river, the same
place where we are going tomorrow morning.
We had dinner and went to sleep hoping that our luck with the
weather would change and we could fly to the Middle Lands tomorrow.
Rebeca
Related stories
24 October: Brazilian
mahogany mafia exposed and the government suspends all mahogany
logging and transport and the Greenpeace
team arrives in Tucuma to join the federal investigation of
the illegal mahogany trade.
Read the update for the Greenpeace
ship MV Arctic Sunrise as it travels up river to meet the
team in the Middle Lands.
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