Rainforests of the world are rapidly disappearing due to a range of issues.
Now, researchers have pinpointed another surprising factor in the destruction of the rainforests in Central America: Drug trafficking.
The deforestation rate in Eastern Honduras more than quadrupled from 2007 to 2011.
Deforestation has also spiked in Eastern Nicaragua and Northern Guatemala.
Who could actually clear such a large amount of protected land and get away with it?
The only people who have the impunity to do something so highly illegal are drug traffickers.
http://io9.com/how-drug-trafficking-worsens-the-problem-of-deforestati-1512596676