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Illegal deforestation for avocado production in Mexico spreads as US relaxes import controls

03.04.2017 Mexican authorities revealed this week that pine forests have been illegally felled to make way for an avocado plantation in a nature reserve in the country’s Mexico state

Brazilian criminal deforestation network still active despite arrests and embargo

20.03.2017 Although land occupied by the notorious Jotinha network is officially embargoed, reports claims workers “are still fattening cattle on these properties”

False documents facilitate illegal sale of land in Brazilian indigenous reserve

13.02.2017 Deforestation of a reserve in Rondonia has intensified after false documents were allegedly drawn up to illegally sell off land

Greenpeace uncovers illegal deforestation of more than 40,000 hectares of protected forests in Argentina

27.01.2017 Satellite image analysis points to widespread forest loss in several states believed to be for soy and fruit cultivation

Illegal agricultural plantations driving disappearance of ‘Intact Forest Landscapes’ worldwide

26.01.2017 More than 7 per cent of the area of these uniquely valuable ‘untouched’ forests were degraded or cleared between 2001 and 2013

Thousands of fires linked to agriculture wreak havoc in Amazon

28.11.2016 Thousands of illegal forest fires linked to cattle ranching and agriculture caused considerable damage to the Brazilian Amazon in 2016

Deforestation from avocado production in Mexico higher than previously thought

14.11.2016 The country's attoerny general has claimed up to 8,000 hectares of forests cleared each year to for avocado orchards in the state of Michoacán

Sugar plantation caught with illegal timber in wildlife sanctuary

17.10.2016 Cambodian authorities seized more than 1,000 logs on the property of a Chinese-owned sugarcane plantation

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