Across Latin America, Mennonites seek out isolation at the expense of forests

Mongabay
Dec 15, 2021, 1:20 am379 pts
Low German Old Colony Mennonites, who have been settling across Latin America for the past 100 years, have cleared 495 hectares (1,223 acres) of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon so far this year. The illegal deforestation documented by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) is part of an ongoing…

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