Bolivia’s surging deforestation alarms environmentalists

The world of virgin forest cleared in Bolivia jumped 32 per cent final 12 months, fuelling considerations that government-backed deforestation may jeopardise efforts to avoid wasting the Amazon.

The speed of tree clearing is now so excessive that Bolivia accounts for 9 per cent of the entire main forest misplaced throughout the globe. Solely Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo — that are eight and two instances bigger than Bolivia respectively — misplaced extra main forest in …