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Brazil's illegal logging hard to combat (AP)

Date : 17 May 2008 Category : World

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AP - Acrid smoke from charcoal-making blankets this Amazon logging town with the smell of business as usual. Less than three months ago, federal agents swooped in to close sawmills, confiscate wood and smash charcoal furnaces in a government crackdown on illegal logging.

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