Satellite photograph of land deforested for agriculture within the Chiquitania area of Bolivia
NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin/Landsat/UGS
The space of virgin forest cleared in Bolivia jumped 32 per cent final 12 months, fuelling issues that government-backed deforestation might jeopardise efforts to avoid wasting the Amazon.
The price of tree clearing is now so excessive that Bolivia accounts for 9 per cent of the entire main forest misplaced throughout the globe. Only Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo — that are eight and two occasions bigger than Bolivia respectively — misplaced extra main forest in …
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