Illegal deforestation rises in South America’s Indigenous territories, parks

Mongabay
Dec 29, 2020, 6:02 am456 ptsHot
Between 2010 and 2020, South America lost an average of 2.6 million hectares of forest per year, according the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In other words, the continent lost an area of forest the size of Ecuador in the space of a decade. South America’s rate of deforestation…

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