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 InSight Crime and the Igarapé Institute present an investigation into environmental crime and the actors who fuel it in the Amazonian tri-border regions between Colombia, Peru and Brazil, and Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil. This five-part series, the product of a year of field research and interviews, reveals how illegal gold and timber have become the currency of organized crime in these regions, competing with drug trafficking that invades forests and rivers alike.
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Gold fever and illegal logging are a few of the environmental crimes plaguing Indigenous communities and sowing the seeds of future destruction in the Amazon. The Amazon Presidential Summit, which began on August 8 in Brazil, emphasizes the importance of joining efforts to protect these communities and combat environmental crimes in the region. In our explanatory video, we provide more information about these threats in the triple-border regions.
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“Stolen Amazon: The Roots of Environmental Crime in the Tri-Border Regions” is the fourth installment of a joint research series between InSight Crime and the Igarapé Institute, which aims to highlight how environmental crimes are harmful to natural ecosystems and the communities that inhabit the Amazon basin.
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About Igarapé Institute
The Igarapé Institute is an independent think-and-do tank that conducts research, develops solutions, and establishes partnerships with the aim of influencing both public and corporate policies and practices in overcoming major global challenges.
Our mission is to contribute to public, digital, and climate security in Brazil and worldwide. Igarapé is a non-profit and non-partisan institution, based in Rio de Janeiro,
operating from the local to the global level.
Lear more about the Igarapé Institute’s climate security program>
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About InSight Crime
InSight Crime is a think tank and media organization that seeks to deepen and inform the debate about organized crime and citizen security in the Americas by providing regular reporting, analysis, data, investigation, and policy suggestions on how to tackle the multiple challenges they present.
It does this by fusing investigative journalism with academic rigor, building its analysis from extensive ground research, which includes speaking to all the actors, legal and illegal. As well as publishing work, it works with a network of experts and partners in the region to provide bespoke risk analysis, diagnostics, and opportunities for positive intervention.
Learn more about InSight Crime's InDepth coverage of environmental crime >
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