Drug trade damaging Central America’s forests, researchers say
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Drug trafficking and organised crime are fuelling deforestation in protected tropical forests and national parks across Central America, causing substantial economic losses, researchers said on Tuesday. Traffickers are cutting down trees to build roads and airstrips to transport cocaine and are encroaching ever further into more remote forest areas to evade […]
CENTRAL AMERICA: ‘NARCO-DEFORESTATION’ MAY BOOST DISASTER RISKS, SAY EXPERTS
SEBASTIAN RODRIGUEZ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how illicit drug trafficking gangs are damaging the environment in Central American states…