Green Options

Environmental protest is as large a part of the debate on the environment as is environmental legislation – in media terms it’s probably a bigger part than environmental data, which is often complex and unwieldy to transmit to a sound-bite audience …

Thousands of people rioted on Sunday in Paragominas, Brazil, protesting the government’s crackdown on illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest. The protesters burned vehicles, set the offices of the environmental agency Ibama on fire, and stole 14 trucks carrying 400 cubic meters of logs seized from illegal logging activities in the Amazon.

The rioters chased government officials into a hotel and attempted to smash their way in with a tractor, but were forced back by the use of tear gas. Nobody was injured in the attack.