Green Options » forest clearance http://greenoptions.com/tag/forest-clearance Posts tagged 'forest clearance' Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:13:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Peru to Create Environment Police Force to Protect Amazon Biodiversity http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/peru-to-create-environment-police-force-to-protect-amazon-biodiversity/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/peru-to-create-environment-police-force-to-protect-amazon-biodiversity/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:13:06 +0000 Andrew Williams http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/peru-to-create-environment-police-force-to-protect-amazon-biodiversity/ The environment and interior ministries in Peru have announced plans to set up a special task force to safeguard forests and monitor the rivers in the Amazon basin. The special force will be made up of around 3,000 officers to be known as the Environment Police.

The force will oversee 373,000 sq km of Amazon rainforest and patrol rivers to combat illegal logging and the unauthorised clearing of forest. Peru’s Environment Minister Antonio Brack said that until now the issue, “a problem of organized crime, morality and oversight,” has not been adequately addressed due to a severely understaffed police force running to just 240 men.

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