Video: Inside The Land Grabbing Industry

Pulitzer Center's Rainforest Investigations Network Fellow Fernanda Wenzel shows for The Intercept Brasil how powerful groups operate in taking over public lands in the Amazon to turn them into pastureland and areas for timber sales.
Every day, an immense area of forest that belongs to all Brazilians are stolen by groups of professional land grabbers. These are the forest thieves, who clear, burn, and then profit from public lands. With support from the Rainforest Investigations Network, the Intercept spent a year investigating illegal logging in the Amazon, and uncovered a scheme involving engineers, realtors, government agencies, and lots of money.