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View on deforested land in the northeast of department Santa Cruz, where a single tree is left. After Brazil and DR Congo, Bolivia has the third highest deforestation rate of primary tropical forests.??From 1976 to 2021, it lost 8,6 million hectares, fourteen percent of its forests according to Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza NGO. This is??an area as big as the size of Austria. The country ranks 12th among all countries in biodiversity, but it's rapidly losing its animal and plant species.?? Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia 2022

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Striking photo of lone tree is stark warning about Bolivia’s future

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