Satellite tv for pc picture 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 save lots of the Amazon.
The speed of tree clearing is now so excessive that Bolivia accounts for 9 per cent of all the main forest misplaced throughout the globe. Solely Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo — that are eight and two occasions bigger than Bolivia respectively — misplaced extra main forest in …