News Headline

Cocaine Not to Blame for Western Amazon Forest Loss, Study Says

Source
Voice of America

Publication Date
2016-09-29

RIO DE JANEIRO — Infrastructure projects designed to open the western Amazon for investment are to blame for deforestation in parts of Peru, Colombia and Bolivia — not coca production, researchers said Wednesday.

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