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Re:Turn Your Old Cell Phones into Listening Devices to Stop ... by sitkack on Sunday July 27, 2014 @12:22AM (#8091970)
Legal logging is a bigger threat.
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Re:Turn Your Old Cell Phones into Listening Devices to Stop ... by RainforestCx on Sunday July 27, 2014 @12:53AM (#8092034)
> Legal logging is a bigger threat.

This is common misconception, which should be true, but in fact isn't. Environmental crime is rampant and highly profitable. Interpol estimates that 50-90% of rainforest logging is illegal:

http://www.interpol.int/Crime-areas/Environmental-crime/Proj...

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