Top 20 forest stories of 2017

Mongabay
Dec 29, 2017, 3:15 pm309 pts
1. Rebel road expansion brings deforestation to remote Colombian Amazon With the demobilization of Colombia’s FARC militant group, the country is expanding agriculture and infrastructure in places in the country once too dangerous to develop. One of these areas is a stretch of rainforest in the Colombian…

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