Ana Rafaela D’Amico the 27 year old youngest Brazilian National Park director has been featured in a film by Thomas Wartmann as she declares ‘war’ on drug gangs, illegal fishing, and the logging mafia in the Amazon. D’Amico is the director of ‘The Campos Amazonicos National Park’, states “Our biggest problem here in the park – and all over the Amazon – is that we don’t know who the men behind this environmental crime are. We always find the poor man hired to occupy or clear the land. But we seldom find out who is really behind it, who provides the money, or which politicians support and fund these criminal acts… Unfortunately some people don’t understand the value of nature. It’s so short-sighted. They think only of profit…. Protecting nature is not a priority for the government. The economy always comes first, along with industry and the country’s development. Nature always comes second, or third… The law applies to everyone, rich or poor. We must implement the law and do our job.”

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