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Police Target the Most Lucrative of Environmental Crimes
LYON, France, February 16, 2021 (ENS) – A decade of forestry crime operations, fighting the looting of natural resources such as timber and charcoal in some of the world’s poorest countries, has given the international police force, Interpol, some powerful tools to carry on the fight against its powerful adversaries. Al-Shabaab, a violent terrorist group responsible for major attacks in Somalia and Kenya, has been one of the main beneficiaries of the illegal charcoal trade.
Illegal loggers cut a rare rainforest tree into planks. Papua, Indonesia. (Photo by Manuel Boissière for CIRAD and CIFOR)