DrugTrade Destruction

More than 1.4 million acres of Colombian tropical rain forests are
being razed every year by drug traffickers and poor farmers to plant
illegal coca and poppy crops. Colonel Leonardo Gallego, head of the
antinarcotics division of the national Police, told reporters that "we
have to put a definitive end to this, once and for all, because a natural
disaster is occurring in Colombia." He stressed that many of the forest
areas cleared for use as drug farms never reach the planting stage
because authorities often spot the deforestation from the air and intervene.