The cultivation of oil palm in the Ucayali region, in Peru, causes devastation of primary forests, changing the face of the Amazon to agricultural land without authorization.
Actualidad Ambiental
7 September 2015 at 11:10 (Updated on 14 September 2020 at 11:57)
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