Brazil names Amazon's worst illegal loggers
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Brazil's Environment Department has released a list of the country's 100 worst illegal loggers as deforestation in the Amazon continues to increase.
Minister Carlos Minc says he will take legal action against all 100 illegal loggers cited in his department's report.
At the top of that list, however, is another Brazilian government department, the Institute of Colonisation and Agrarian Reform, known as INCRA.
Mr Minc said the six largest deforested areas since 2005 all belonged to INCRA and that more than 220,000 hectares had been destroyed on those properties.
He also announced the creation of an environmental police force of 3000 armed and specially trained officers.
