Another way to fight deforestation - stop doing drugs!

An interesting article from the Christian Science Monitor about another victim of the drug wars:

New target in Colombia’s drug war: ecofriendly US users

The Shared Responsibility program aims to educate US and European cocaine users about the environmental damage of cocaine production.

BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
Millions of Americans use cocaine, but few of them consider the millions of acres of forest that have been cleared by coca growers in all corners of Colombia or the blue-billed curassow, a turkey-sized bird that is losing habitat to coca farming. Rest of the article.