Legal logging and soaring saplings: the ‘green islands’ bucking the deforestation trend in central America
via unesco.org
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In Guatemala’s Maya biosphere reserve local people are making a living from trees at the same time as increasing forest cover, showing nature is best protected by those who depend on it The low rumbling grows louder until a huge harvester crashes into the open, dragging a 15-metre trunk of mahogany in its wake. The […]