Timber worth almost $40m has been seized in Latin America in "Operation Lead" headed by Interpol and in national investigations based on it. According to an Interpol press report, a large proportion of this wood, 292,000 m3, was confiscated in Costa Rica and Venezuela. Interpol says the authorities in these two countries responded to the results of the Interpol operation with their own investigations of logging camps, sawmills, and transport routes. The Interpol project for combatting illegal felling is run under the roof of the United Nations and also receives direct financial support from Norway.
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