Illicit Economies in the Amazon and Brazil: Criminal Convergences and State Responses
A Talk by Gabriel Funari , Juliana Ferreira , Bram Ebus and Fabian Federl
About this Talk
Organized crime is expanding its territorial reach and diversifying its market activities across the countries of the Amazon basin. This recent trend has led to ecological devastation, and rising human insecurity in the region. The panel explores the implications of greater criminal activity in the Amazon, through presentations that cover the amplification of drug cultivation and trafficking in the Amazon, the rise of illicit gold mining in Suriname and French Guyana and efforts to train Brazilian law-enforcement to combat wildlife trafficking.
About The Speakers
Executive Director - South Am Office, Freeland / EWC
PhD in Genetics. Executive Director of the Freeland office for South America, in Brazil. TED Senior Fellow, Nat Geo Emerging Explorer. Part of the steering group of the EWC - Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime.
Research coordinator of the journalistic alliance Amazon Underworld and consultant on conflict and environment at the International Crisis Group.