The net tightens around illegal logging operations in Pará, Bolsonaro’s stronghold

Uruará voted for Brazil’s rightwing president hoping for a more relaxed approach to illegal logging, but enforcement agencies are cracking down
Officials from the Para State Environment Agency intercept a truck carrying a load of illegal timber during an operation to combat deforestation in the municipality of Uruara, Para state (Photo: Lalo de Almeida/Folhapress)