In Ecuador’s Chocó, roads shape the fate of the rainforest

Mongabay
Feb 18, 2026, 2:05 pm277 ptsTop
HOJA BLANCO, Ecuador — Some parts of the rainforest in northwestern Ecuador used to be so dense and impenetrable that only a few hundred people were believed to live there. Even when loggers moved into the area in the 1980s and 1990s, setting up the first roads, it would take hours to travel only a few miles.…

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