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Cocaine trafficking is destroying Central America’s forests

Source
Science Magazine

Publication Date
2017-06-16

Kendra McSweeney knew that something was off. When the geographer at The Ohio State University in Columbus traveled to Honduras’s La Mosquitia region in 2011 to study its indigenous communities, she saw changes to the once lushly forested landscape that shocked her: huge, indiscriminate clearings in the middle of nowhere.

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/cocaine-trafficking-destroying-central-america-s-forests