Brazil Police Arrest Loggers In Amazon Reserve
Brazilian federal police said they arrested on Wednesday at least 40 members of an illegal logging operation in an Amazon tribal Indian reservation amid growing concern over destruction of the world's largest rain forest. The operation cleared the equivalent of 70,000 football fields of virgin forest in the Vale do Guapore Indian reserve in Mato Grosso state, the federal police said in a statement. Among those arrested were loggers, highway and military police officers, neighbouring farmers and state civil servants.