In the world’s largest rainforest, cocaine and deforestation are increasingly linked.
By Robert Muggah, a principal at the SecDev Group and co-founder of the Igarapé Institute.
The protection of the Amazon Basin is a perennial priority on the global diplomatic circuit. And rightly so: As most of us know by now, relentless deforestation and degradation of the world’s largest tropical forest threatens to irreversibly destroy one of the planet’s richest reservoirs of biodiversity and undercut the international climate agenda.