
Brazil can green its environmental crime-fighting in the Amazon (commentary)
via news.mongabay.com
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In 2013, a small group of Brazilian forestry engineers ecologists, and other scientists formed a special operations unit. Known as the Grupo de Especialização de Fiscalização (GEF), the unit operates under Brazil’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. GEF targets the most destructive criminal groups involved in illegal gold mining in the Amazon Rainforest. To […]