Synopsis
Thousands of undiscovered species, with potentially life saving properties, are at risk due to deforestation in Columbia.
- Programme: Our World
- Episode: Columbia: Saving Eden
- Channel: BBC News
- Broadcast year: 2020
- Geography | Ecosystems | Tropical rainforest biomes | Deforestation of the rainforest
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