Forest rangers being murdered because they are trying to protect trees. Amazonia is not the only place where this happens… It happens in Europe too.
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00:00And I say this because in the last few months, I've met a lot of people trying to stop the
00:29violence in Bavaria, and because in the last year there have been more than 600 victims of
00:33the violence against the forest.
00:59We have 20 million cubic meters of wood that disappear annually, illegally, from Romania.
01:15This is more than we legally exploit in Romania, because we exploit 18 million cubic meters
01:19of wood, and the other 20 million disappear.
01:22This means that we are not talking about minor crimes or minor illegalities, we are talking
01:28about a phenomenon of generalized corruption that leads to the existence of a new Romania.
01:52We have been assisting in the destruction of Romania's forests for 30 years.
02:12We want to see the rest of the wood completely destroyed, and the violence associated with
02:18the cutting of Romania's forests.