Growing mining contribution to Colombian deforestation

Tropical deforestation is mainly driven by agricultural expansion, land grabbing, illegal logging, urbanization, cattle ranching as well as mining. However, extraction of minerals and its impacts in high biodiversity regions are still poorly known, particularly in Colombia, a tropical megadiverse ho...

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Main Authors: Andrés González-González, Nicola Clerici, Benjamin Quesada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfcf8