A general view shows the Marinha street during preparations for the COP30 Summit in Belem, state of Para, Brazil February 5, 2025. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
(Reuters) -Almost 2,000 container ships carrying illegally harvested timber from the Brazilian Amazonian state that will host this year's U.N. climate summit has reached Europe and the U.S. in recent years, showed an investigative report by an environmental NGO.
The report released on Thursday by London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) featured satellite imagery, records and interviews with industry sources to trace about 53,000 cubic meters of timber to four sites in the state of Para that had been sanctioned, were under embargo or had other irregularities such as illegal gold mining.
