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Bolivia approves highway through Amazon biodiversity hotspot [1]

Bolivia has given the go ahead to a controversial highway which would cut through an Amazon biodiversity hotspot almost the size of Jamaica and home to 14,000 mostly indigenous people.

Publication Date: 
16/08/2017
Guardian (UK) [2]
Tags:
Environment [3], Biodiversity [4], Bolivia [5], Deforestation [6], Amazon [7], Ecology [8], Highways [9], Infrastructure Development [10]

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