After reporting a truck loaded with mahogany illegally logged from the Amazon rainforest, Don Julio García Agapito, a Peruvian authority who worked to protect forests, was murdered by Amancion Jacinto Maque, an illegal timber operator, on February 26, 2008. He is survived by his wife and children.
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