Cocaine-linked airstrip appears in Peruvian national park

Mongabay
By <a class="author-link"…Dec 29, 2015, 4:40 pm140 pts
A new airstrip recently identified in a protected national park in the Peruvian Amazon indicates that deforestation stemming from the country’s coca cultivation is continuing to take a serious toll on important portions of the area’s primary forest. Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP), a web…

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