Illegal clearing for agriculture is driving tropical deforestation: Report

Mongabay
May 20, 2021, 7:11 pm160 pts
Tropical forests around the world are being destroyed at an alarming rate, even in 2020 when the global economy slowed dramatically during the pandemic. A new report released this week offers insight into a primary driver of this deforestation – and our unwitting complicity as consumers. In their report,…

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