More than 90% of the rainforest in Western Ecuador, in the Choco Biogeographical Region, has been destroyed by loggers, ranchers and for oil palm. Her

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More than 90% of the rainforest in Western Ecuador, in the Choco Biogeographical Region, has been destroyed by loggers, ranchers and for oil palm. Here, a new threat from luxury housing development.

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