Trucks transport timber illegally extracted from a land settlement in the Brazilian Amazon state of Pará.
An eight-month Greenpeace investigation revealed that the Brazilian Government’s Agency for Land Reform (INCRA) is setting aside large ‘land settlements’ in rainforest areas of great value to the timber industry, instead of already-deforested areas intended for farming land for poor communities. Once set up, the Agency encourages links between the logging companies and unregulated ‘land settlers associations’, which encourages the gross exploitation of the newly-formed ‘settlement’.