Facebook to act on illegal sale of Amazon rainforest
According to a recent study from the think tank Ipam (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambental da Amazonia), a third of all deforestation happens in publicly-owned forests in the Amazon.
Facebook said it would not reveal how it planned to find the illegal ads but said it would “seek to identify and block new listings” in protected areas of the Amazon rainforest.
Illegal deforestation exposed
In azon revealed that plots of rainforest as large as 1,000 football pitches were being listed on Facebook’s classified ads service. Continue Reading
