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Minister keeps his word as ‘pirate’ cattle are seized

26/06/2008

Following an announcement in May by Carlos Minc, Brazil’s minister for the environment, that the government would combat deforestation by seizing cattle in illegally cleared jungle areas, 3,000 head have been seized in Altamira, in the northern state of Pará. The animals are in the custody of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Natural ...

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