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Greenpeace Buys Tons of Illegally Cut Brazilian Wood, Delivers it to Police
Sao Paulo, Brazil - Environmental activists parked a truckload of illegally cut Amazon hardwood in front of a police station in Brazil's largest city on Monday to demonstrate how easy it is to skirt the law.
Members of Greenpeace posing as wood buyers bought the 30 metric tons (33 tons) of timber in the remote state of Rondonia bordering Bolivia and used an agent to obtain permits that falsely stated the wood had been legally cut, said Paulo Adario, coordinator of the group's Amazon campaign against deforestation.