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Nearly 13.5 Hectares Honduras
Forests Burned
Nearly 13.5 hectares of
woodlands have been destroyed by
burns this year, Lucky Medina,
chief of the Environment
Department at the Honduran
Forest Development Corporation (COHDEFOR),
stated on Saturday.
The most affected region by
burns is La Mosquitia,
department of Gracias a Dios,
which covers great part of the
eastern Honduran territory and
with an extensive Caribbean
coast, where some 6,000 hectares
have been devastated, Medina
noted.
According to COHDEFOR, Honduras
has five million hectares of
forest, of them about 100,000
are annually lost in fires,
illegal cutting of trees,
agriculture and other causes.
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