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Illegal export of mahogany continues

Two barges transporting over 200 logs of illegal wood were impounded by IBAMA (Brazilian Environmental Agency) after a three days blockade by 40 small river boats in the Jaraucu river. Enlarge Image

Illegal logs seized in the Amazon

After only three days, the river blockade mounted by local communities in the Amazon has stopped two illegal logging barges carrying over 200 logs. The barges have been impounded and the owner fined almost 200,000 Brazilian Reals - nearly US$ 60,000.

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Species survival plans crucial at CITES

Theories abound for dinosaurs' dramatic exit from the planet millions of years ago. Now another mass extinction is underway on Earth, but this time the cause is amply clear: humans. It's time to stop trading Earth's biodiversity for profits, and put preservation first at UN negotiations now underway in Santiago, Chile.

Greenpeace campaigner Paulo Adario contemplating destruction in the Pará State, Amazon, Brazil. Enlarge Image

CITES: Brazil and Lula must save mahogany

"Brazil and Lula: Save Mahogany". This is Greenpeace activists' message today for Brazil's new president Luiz Inacio da Silva, affectionately known by the public as "Lula". Without decisive support at the UN meeting now underway, the illegal trade in mahogany will continue to fuel Amazon destruction, crime and corruption in Brazil.

Some of the six hundred children from Santiago joining in a Walk for Endangered Species held in the city today. Enlarge Image

600 children tell CITES to save species

Spectacular animals like whales, elephants and jaguars may become little more than mythical creatures to children of the future. But this is an unhappy ending that children of today took action to prevent. More than six hundred of them marched through Santiago, Chile today to tell decision makers at a UN CITES meeting to save Earth's precious biodiversity for future generations.

Greenpeace activitists with toothfish heads picket the entract of the building CITES delegates are meeting. Enlarge Image

CITES: Survival hangs from thread

Two dramatic Greenpeace actions today and yesterday stressed the plight of endangered species to delegates who will vote to decide their fate. Decisions being made this week on toothfish, sharks, and elephants and other threatened species at the UN CITES meeting will determine the role international trade plays in their uncertain futures.

Victory at the CITES meeting means mahogany will have a fighting chance and the Amazon and its people will benefit. Enlarge Image

Victory for the Amazon, its people and a big leaf tree

Ten years of work to protect Amazon mahogany has paid off. This high-priced hard wood was driving the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, corruption and even murder. But a decision to regulate international trade of mahogany will give the species and the forest a fighting chance.

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