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Covid an excuse to strip tropical forests: indigenous groups AFP 2/18/2021 AFP © Raul ARBOLEDA In Colombia, deforestation of the Amazon has accelerated by 80 percent during Covid lockdown Governments worldwide are using the Covid-19 pandemic to push through destructive development projects and roll back protections of indigenous groups, according to a global report on deforestation and rule of law released Thursday. An assessment by the Forest People s Programme of post-pandemic stimulus plans in Brazil, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia and Peru found that projects such as mines, industrial agriculture plantations and dams were fuelling a rise in rights abuses. Those five countries contain the majority of the world s tropical forests.

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