Palm oil, coca and gangs close in on Colombia's Indigenous Nukak Makú
Palm oil, coca and gangs close in on Colombia’s Indigenous Nukak Makú Satellite and aerial images show the advance of extensive cattle ranching and mechanized agriculture of plantain, pineapple, yucca, oil palm and eucalyptus in the rainforests of Colombia’s Guaviare department. Law enforcement efforts have not been enough to stop the expansion of illegal palm oil plantations that surround the Nukak Indigenous reservation. The Indigenous tribe, which had no contact with the outside world until 32 years ago, is also losing its forest home to coca cultivation and cattle ranching. A group o...
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