Another important environmental crime is illegal logging. Illegal logging is the unauthorized cutting down of trees in forests around the world.
Loggers who illegally cut down trees make up to $15 billion a year from their crimes.
It has reported that up to 2 million hectares of forests were cut down in 20 years in South America by cocaine producers.
Colombia is still facing many problems from illegal logging. Up to 43 percent of the wood sold in the country was taken down without permission.
In the Amazon, a lot of trees are being cut down by loggers as well. Many believe that the earth is getting warmer because of all the trees being cut down, and illegal logging plays a big part in that. We need to stop cutting down trees and save our planet.