Satellite photo of land deforested for agriculture in the Chiquitania region of Bolivia NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin/Landsat/UGS
The area of virgin forest cleared in Bolivia jumped 32 per cent last year, fuelling concerns that government-backed deforestation could jeopardise efforts to save the Amazon.
The rate of tree clearing is now so high that Bolivia accounts for 9 per cent of all of the primary forest lost across the globe. Only Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo — which are eight and two times larger than Bolivia respectively — lost more primary forest in …
