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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .The drug trade has devastated communities in Central and South America.
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3 .Policy makers are now looking at moving away from trying to stop drug production, to trying to curb demand.
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4 .If it works and narcotic producers lose power, Central America's forests may benefit along with its people.
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5 .That's according to a new policy report in the journal Science.
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6 .It turns out that the growth of the cocaine business has led in Central America to what's called narco-deforestation.
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7 .The practice takes place in ecologically sensitive and even protected areas.
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8 .Poverty, weak governments, and illegal logging all affect forest use.
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9 .But Central America has become an important bridge between the U.S.and South America's cocaine.
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10 .Forests have been slashed for roads and plane landings.
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11 .And when local ranchers or timber sellers become rich with drug money, they expand their operations.
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12 .Narcotic producers also develop habitat for legal agriculture that’s used to launder drug money.
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13 .Government agents are bribed to turn away, and conservation groups fear entering these areas.
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14 .The study authors say that the ecological and conservation impacts of the drug trade are underappreciated,
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15 .and that they should inform both conservation and drug policy in the future.
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16 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.
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