By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil is preparing to launch a center for international police cooperation to combat environmental crimes and d.
Brazil is preparing to
launch a center for international police cooperation to combat
environmental crimes and drug trafficking in the Amazon
rainforest by the end of 2023, Federal Police officials. -September 13, 2023 at 04:14 pm EDT
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Implementing the initiative will cost the Brazilian government 9 million reais ($1.83 million), and its annual budget will be 7 million reais. | World News
Brazil is preparing to launch a center for international police cooperation to combat environmental crimes and drug trafficking in the Amazon rainforest by the end of 2023, Federal Police officials told Reuters. The center, agreed upon at the summit of Amazon nations in August, will bring together police authorities from the eight countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO). Uniting the Amazon countries against criminal activity in the world's largest rainforest is key to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's effort to restore Brazil's environmental credentials after four years of soaring deforestation under predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.