Sentences with phrase «deforestation than the poorest»
In fact, the richest 20 % of households at each study site caused 30 % more deforestation than the poorest 20 %.
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Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the western hemisphere, and nearly half of the population lives on less than 2 dollars a day, while at the same time the nation is experiencing a serious deforestation problem, with some 21 % of the country's forest cover being destroyed between 1990 and 2005, and although that rate has slowed somewhat, it's still losing 1 % of its forests each year.