Coca farms close in on protected areas, isolated tribes in Peruvian Amazon

Mongabay
Dec 9, 2019, 11:18 am294 pts
ATALAYA, Peru — Pascual cuts the motor and our dugout canoe glides below a massive tree trunk suspended a few feet above the river. I motion to the bank. “We want to fly the drone!” I yell over the buzz of chainsaws coming from the opposite bank. “No,” Pascual says, shaking his head. “We can’t…

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