Roads the biggest threat to tropical forests

from The Science Show - Separate stories podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Easy access to tropical forests via modern highways encourages rapid colonisation, land grabbers, illegal logging, illegal gold mining and animal poaching. Is this progress?

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