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Planned Amazon roads could harm economies not just forests, researchers warn

Road through Amazon Brazil

Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation If governments follow through on plans to build thousands of kilometres of roads through the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, it will not only fuel deforestation but bring economic losses too, researchers said on Monday. They examined the potential social, environmental and economic impact of 75 roads, totalling 12,000 kilometres, […]