Over the course of a year, a team from OjoPúblico analyzed more than two and a half million timber commercialization data and developed an algorithm to measure the risk of it being illegal. The Dipteryx Project - named after one of the Amazon's most endangered tree species, the shihuahuaco - found that more than half of the timber traded is at high risk of being illegal. The algorithm combines several databases from the last 15 years and identifies high risks by concessionaire, sawmill and final buyers. The levels of risk of illegality by species are even more alarming: 84% for shihuahuaco, 77% for capirona and 76.1% for tornillo. In the case of sawmills, suspicions of illegality reach 70%. This special report - developed as part of the Pulitzer Center's Rainforest Research Network (RIN), and worked with the technical support of Proética and the Environmental Investigation Agency - reveals how the system that sustains illegal logging in the Amazon operates.

Aramís Castro @aramis19 aramis@ojo-publico.com

9 Junio, 2024