‘Narco-deforestation’ and the future of the Amazon

There’s a struggle for law and order in many of the world’s tropical forests, and nature is losing.Last week, I wrote about the major progress Colombia made in 2023, slashing deforestation rates by 49 percent in a single year. But this week, we learned the trend reversed significantly in the first quarter of this year. Preliminary figures show tree loss was up 40 percent since the start of the year, Colombia’s…