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Amazon road-building projects would result in deforestation of 2.4 million hectares

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2020-03-17

A team of researchers from the U.S., Bolivia, Brazil, Sweden, Peru and Columbia has found that most of the road projects currently planned for the Amazon rainforest have not been assessed for environmental or economic impacts. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their own assessment of the impact of 75 planned road building projects and what they found.

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https://phys.org/news/2020-03-amazon-road-building-result-deforestation-million.html