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Bolivia Deforestation Sequence
April 20, 2012 | NASA

“This area lies east of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, in an area of tropical dry forest. Since the mid-1980s, the resettlement of people from the Altiplano and a large agricultural development effort have led to deforestation in this area.”


Left: June 17, 1975. Middle: July 10, 1992. Right: August 1, 2000.


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