How a growing timber business revived a forest

Grist
By Nathanael JohnsonDec 20, 2016, 2:15 pm164 pts
Fourth in a series on tackling poverty while protecting the environment. Read the intro. The settlement of Cristóbal Colón, like most tiny towns scraped into the backcountry, was rough. There were no jobs in the rural community in western Ecuador, so people were leaving to eek out a meager existence in…

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