Para's economy is heavily dependent on timber. About 20 percent of the state's gross income comes from wood. The Secretary of Environment of Para registers 2,123 companies dealing with wood. Greenpeace claims the vast majority of them trade in illegally logged timber. This amounts to 67 percent of the Brazilian Amazon timber exports and 23 percent of the country's exports of sawn wood, plywood and veneer.
Brazil is the world's biggest consumer of tropical timber.
Seventy-five percent of the wood that leaves the Amazon remains in the country. Para supplies 40 percent of the Brazilian consumption of tropical timber. All Rights Reserved. Inc. All Rights Reserved.