This file photo taken on August 07, 2020 shows an aerial view of a deforested area close to Sinop, Mato Grosso State, Brazil.
KUALA LUMPUR: A rise in huge, opaque infrastructure and mining projects threatens to destroy and open up the world's last remaining rainforests to development, researchers warned on Thursday.
A report assessing progress on the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests - backed by more than 200 countries, companies and green groups - found that its 2020 goal to reduce natural forest loss by at least half would not be met.
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