Brazil & Greenpeace plan crackdown on Amazon logging "
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02/06/1999
To mark World Environment Day, June 5, Greenpeace has launched a campaign to save the Amazon rainforest with the cooperation of the government of Brazil. Thilo Bode, executive director of Greenpeace International told reporters in Rio Friday, "The fight against the destruction of the Amazon rainforest will be one of Greenpeace's top priorities going into the next Millennium." According to the Brazilian government 80 percent of all logged timber in the Amazon is illegal.