Colombia tropical forest fires spike after 2016 Peace Accords

(Rutgers University) Fires that contribute to deforestation spiked six-fold in Colombia in the year after an historic 2016 peace agreement ended decades of conflict between FARC guerrilla and government forces, according to a study in Nature Ecology& Evolution. " This dramatic increase from trends in the last decade will boost the likelihood of deforestation in protected areas in the upcoming year, " said study co-author Laura C. Schneider, an associate professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
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