Satellite tv for pc photograph of land deforested for agriculture within the Chiquitania area of Bolivia
NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin/Landsat/UGS
The realm of virgin forest cleared in Bolivia jumped 32 per cent final 12 months, fuelling considerations that government-backed deforestation might jeopardise efforts to avoid wasting the Amazon.
The speed of tree clearing is now so excessive that Bolivia accounts for 9 per cent of all the major forest misplaced throughout the globe. Solely Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo — that are eight and two instances bigger than Bolivia respectively — misplaced extra major forest in …
