Soy: The agro-industry that devastates the Maya jungle

Mongabay
Jun 15, 2023, 11:11 am147 pts
Looking from above, the Nuevo Progreso Mennonite camp is a patch of brown hues that spreads irregularly on a green carpet. You can only see uniform crops that seem to go on and on at ground level. It isn’t easy to imagine that in that homogeneous landscape, there was, 35 years ago, a jungle. In the north,…

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