Tag: illegal logging

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Conservationists protecting monarch butterflies killed in Mexico

  

  A second Mexican conservationist active in protecting monarch butterflies has been found dead within days of each other, authorities said. The body of Raul Hernandez Romero was found on Saturday in the central-western state of Michoacan, where Homero Gomez Gonzalez was found at the bottom of a well last Wednesday, two weeks after going missing.

• Friday, June 7th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Bolsonaro administration launches operation to tackle illegal logging in the Amazon

  

  Brazil’s environmental protection agency IBAMA has launched its biggest-ever operation to tackle illegal logging that is accelerating Amazon deforestation amid a surge in tree-felling since President Jair Bolsonaro took office.