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These tropical forests are critically important. Why is this religious sect cutting them down?

Satellite images show the loss of forest in Bolivia’s eastern lowlands between 1984 and 2022, mostly from expanding farmland. | Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Over the last few decades, wildfires, farmers, and cattle ranchers have razed millions of acres of tropical forests across the planet. Much of that deforestation has occurred in three countries: Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia. But in the last few years, another, smaller nation has risen in the ranks of nations with the most severe forest loss — Bolivia. Situated just west of B...