New Capacity Building and Information Sharing Efforts Will Help Protect the Amazon WASHINGTON, DC – The Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition welcomes the recent announcement by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen of the new Amazon Region Initiative Against Illicit Finance, which will target
Exhaustive field research from Peru highlights the ways in which criminal actors and networks are contributing to illegal deforestation and environmental degradation Peru’s 70 million hectares of rainforest are being razed at an alarming rate. In 2020, the country saw a record 203,000 hectares
Peru’s 70 million hectares of rainforest are being razed at an alarming rate. In 2020, the country saw a record 203,000 hectares destroyed, a nearly 40 percent jump from 2019. “The roots of environmental crime in the Peruvian Amazon” is the second in a
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