Greenpeace activists protest in front of the Brazilian Congress, demanding an official response and the end of impunity on murders and violence in the field. 251 crosses were taken to the Congress, standing for the 251 murders in the Amazon from 2007 to 2016.
Valdelir João de Souza, the "Polish", is the owner of Cedroarana and G.A. sawmills and the responsible for the forest management plan next to where the Colniza Massacre happened. He's currently a fugitive from justice, but his sawmills keep shipping timber internally and for other countries. In the same day of the massacre, timber was sent to Europe and to the United States.
The Blood-stained Timber report, launched by Greenpeace, shows how fraud in licensing (authorizing logging from protected areas) and production chain monitoring systems (identifying the companies that buy and sell timber from the forest to end users) further increase violence in the field.