Replacing cocaine barons with cattle ranchers is destroying the Amazon

Colombia’s great Amazon rainforest — a ‘vital lung’ of the planet — is being cleared for grazing cattle by an area bigger than Los Angeles every year

The Telegraph
Nov 6 · 10 min read

By Joe Shute. Photographs by David Rose

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