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Organized crime is a top driver of global deforestation – along with beef, soy, palm oil and wood products

  • Written by Jennifer Devine, Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, Texas State University
imageFires burn off forest cover and natural grasses to create cattle pasture in the Maya forest in Guatemala.Jennifer Devine, CC BY-ND

Every year the world loses an estimated 25 million acres (10 million hectares) of forest, an area larger than the state of Indiana. Nearly all of it is in the tropics.

Tropical forests store enormous quantities of...

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