Indigenous peoples have considerable rights under Brazil’s 1988 constitution. Land rights were further extended to Quilombola communities under President Lula’s government. Brazil has one of the world’s most robust forest protection systems. However, as demonstrated throughout the Communication: there is a vast gulf between the recognition of rights and their enjoyment and/or enforcement. While Brazil’s domestic legal system recognizes environmental crime, the Network’s insidious power and reach has ensured that inconvenient laws are undermined or unenforced. The resulting environmental damage—largely brought under control in the first decade of the 20th Century—has been staggering in recent years, threatening the very existence of the Amazon Rainforest.