North America's Threatened Rainforest

A Houston Chronicle special report on deforestation.

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October 3, 2001, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"The Lacandon Forest, or Selva Lacandona, on Mexico's southern frontier could disappear in less than a generation under a steady onslaught of land-hungry peasants and resource-craving businesses, advocates for the forest and those who colonize it say.Similar destruction eats away at the once-vast tropical woodlands farther to the north, east and south in the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala and parts of Belize."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: The Fated Forest

Tuesday, October 2, 2001 in The Houston Chronicle

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