Fellow Story
Andrea Johnson quoted in Earth Island Journal article about human costs of illegal logging
“The illegal logging industry [in Latin America] has a history of conflict with activists and local communities,” says Andrea Johnson, director of the Forestry Campaign at the Environmental Investigation Agency, which functions as a kind of eco-detective agency and has investigated numerous cases of illegal logging in Mexico and Central and South America, including Honduras. “The rising rate of exploitation goes hand-in-hand with the increased incidents of violence,” Johnson says. “That’s just how it is.”
