The War on Drugs Drives Deforestation

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By Climate NexusOct 9, 2019, 1:53 pm609 ptsHot
The cocaine trade and efforts to combat it, including the U.S.-led war on drugs, are helping to drive deforestation in Central America, new research shows. The findings, released Tuesday at UN events sponsored by the government of Costa Rica, show that traffickers are being pushed into more remote forested…

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