Colombia: Colombia Scraps Amazon Highway Plans Due to Deforestation Concerns

Mar 23, 2018 | Taran Volckhausen, Mongabay
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Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos declared earlier this month that a controversial highway project that would cut through the Amazon will not be completed. Santos pointed at rampant deforestation and potentially irreversible environmental impacts to a sensitive ecological corridor near three national parks if the highway project were followed through to completion.