Oil palm and balsa plantations trigger deforestation in Ecuadorian Amazon

Mongabay
Aug 8, 2023, 9:07 am137 pts
In the Ecuadorian Amazon, a region marked by half a century of extractive industries, mainly oil, deforestation is a constant. In recent years, a new threat to the conservation of these forests has emerged: the cultivation of balsa and oil palm under a contract farming model, that is, production developed under…

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