Drug trafficking leads to deforestation in Central America

Friday, January 31, 2014 - 14:01 in Biology & Nature

Add yet another threat to the list of problems facing the rapidly disappearing rainforests of Central America: drug trafficking. In a new study, researchers who have done work in Central America point to growing evidence that drug trafficking threatens forests in remote areas of Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and nearby countries.

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