Cocaine Production Increases Destruction of Colombia's Rainforests

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 13:01 in Biology & Nature

Cultivating coca bushes, the source of cocaine, is speeding up destruction of rainforests in Colombia and threatening the region's "hotspots" of plant and animal diversity, scientists are reporting in a new study.

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