Brazil seizes record haul of illegal mahogany

  • 25/06/2002

Brazil said this week it had seized a record haul of illegally cut mahogany worth about 80 million reais ($29 million), in its latest victory against the unlicensed harvest of the valuable wood. The Ibama environmental agency said in a statement posted on its Web site the 7,000 logs of mahogany were cut from an Indian reservation in the Amazonian state of Para. The logs were found over the weekend tied together and floating for almost a 1 mile (1.5 km) along the Xingu river.