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After Colombia’s civil war ended, so did ‘gunpoint conservation’

The rebels’ departure from their rainforest strongholds triggered mass deforestation.
A wooded area with deforestation is seen in the Serrania del Chiribiquete, Colombia.

Logging has cut into the core of Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park, the world’s largest tropical rainforest national park, since guerrilla fighters moved out of the region. Credit: Handout/Reuters

The Colombian government’s 2016 peace agreement with guerrilla fighters who hid in the jungle came at an environmental cost: rainforests previously deemed too dangerous to enter are now being destroyed.

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Nature 577, 601 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00126-0

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