Illegally harvested lumber in Buenaventura, Colombia  Colombia's
Coast Guard has said that paramilitary successor groups, known
as BACRIMs, may be getting increasingly involved in timber
trafficking on the Pacific coast as they seek new sources of
revenue outside drug trafficking.  Colombian Coast Guard
officers Carlos Estevez and William Javier Palomino told told El
Pais that there is suspicion that the gangs are behind much of
the illegal logging in the region.  Illegal logging is common
along Colombia’s densely forested Pacific coast, much of which
has little state presence. Even companies that have permits to
conduct logging legally frequently ignore restrictions on the
amount of lumber they can harvest and the areas they can work
in.  So far in 2012, the Coast Guard has seized 3,500 cubic
meters of illegal timber in the area of the coast between Tumaco
and Buenaventura.  InSight Crime Analysis  There is debate about
how far illegal logging in Colombia is carried out by organized
criminal groups, and how