Colombia scraps Amazon highway plans due to deforestation concerns

Mongabay
Mar 23, 2018, 1:54 pm395 pts
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos declared earlier this month that a controversial highway project that would cut through the Amazon will not be completed. Santos pointed at rampant deforestation and potentially irreversible environmental impacts to a sensitive ecological corridor near three national…

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