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Apr 15, 2021 Caqueta, Colombia – The dirt tracks winding through southern Colombia’s tangled jungle often mark the beginning of the end for besieged patches of rainforest in this part of the Amazon. Across San Vicente del Caguan, one of the country’s most deforested regions, illegal and informal roads fan out in an ever-expanding network, bringing visitors, commercial interests and farmers and ranchers who clear and burn the land. The result is the steady decay of Colombia’s Amazon. A Reuters map of the region shows a lattice of lines that crisscross one another and creep sou...

Road to ruin: informal byways sow seeds of destruction in Colombia's Amazon Reuters 1 hr ago By Oliver Griffin © Reuters/LUISA GONZALEZ A parked car is seen on an illegal road in a deforested area of the Yari plains, in Caqueta By Oliver Griffin SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUAN, Caqueta, Colombia (Reuters) - The dirt tracks winding through southern Colombia's tangled jungle often mark the beginning of the end for besieged patches of rainforest in this part of the Amazon. Across San Vicente del Caguan, one of the country's most deforested regions, illegal and informal roads fan ou...

By Oliver Griffin SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUAN, Caqueta, Colombia (Reuters) - The dirt tracks winding through southern Colombia's tangled jungle often mark the beginning of the end for besieged patches of rainforest in this part of the Amazon. Across San Vicente del Caguan, one of the country's most deforested regions, illegal and informal roads fan out in an ever-expanding network, bringing visitors, commercial interests and farmers and ranchers who clear and burn the land. The result is the steady decay of Colombia's Amazon. A Reuters map of the region shows a lattice of lines that crisscross...

INSIGHT-Road to ruin: informal byways sow seeds of destruction in Colombia's Amazon Reuters 1 hr ago * Roads menace Colombian Amazon, vital to curbing climate change * Destruction growing by hundreds of kilometers each year * Land with roads fetches higher prices with buyers By Oliver Griffin SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUAN, Caqueta, Colombia, April 14 (Reuters) - T he dirt tracks winding through southern Colombia's tangled jungle often mark the beginning of the end for besieged patches of rainforest in this part of the Amazon. Across San Vicente del Caguan, one of the country's most deforested regi...