Rolando Navarro
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Former Peruvian Forest inspection agency chief Rolando Navarro poses for a photo near the Capitol building in Washington on Saturday, April 1, 2017. Navarro attained a rare victory against illegal logging _ the world’s No. 1 environmental crime, according to the U.N. _ only to be summarily dismissed in January 2016, when he fled for safety reasons into U.S. exile. He has applied for political asylum. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Former Peruvian Forest inspection agency chief Rolando Navarro poses for a photo at the Mall in Washington, Saturday, April 1, 2017. Navarro attained a rare victory against illegal logging _ the world’s No. 1 environmental crime, according to the U.N. _ only to be summarily dismissed in January 2016, when he fled for safety reasons into U.S. exile. He has applied for political asylum. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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This 2013 photo provided by Rolando Navarro, the ousted former director of Peru’s forest inspection service, shows him at the Jenaro Herrera Center for Investigations in Iquitos, Peru, leading a training session. An Amazon native, Navaro had, when named to the job a year earlier, criss-crossed the vast region for more than a decade, observing extensive illegal logging. (Courtesy Rolando Navarro via AP)
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This 1993 photo provided by Rolando Navarro shows him as a student at the Agricultural National University of the Jungle of Tingo Maria, carrying samples for a project funded by the Peruvian Amazon Investigation Institute. Navarro was raised in the Amazon city of Tarapoto and got his renewable resource management degree in the early 1990s in the eastern Andean foothills at Tingo Maria, the cradle of the cocaine trade, during the country’s vicious conflict with fanatical Shining Path rebels. (Courtesy Rolando Navarro via AP)
