Brazil Model Rules Out 92% of Amazon When Tracing Illegal Timber The Amazon rainforest has long been ravaged by decades of deforestation and logging.
Amidst this destruction, researchers at Brazil's Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture have developed an innovative tool to combat the illicit timber trade: an isotopic mapping model that can rule out 92% of the Amazon when tracing suspected illegal timber.
The new tool comes as no surprise, given the increasingly complex web of international supply chains and the ease with which fake paperwork can be forged.