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NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 20-23Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0727-8
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- NAS [2000007526]
- NSF-DGE [1633299]
- NASA/HQ
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Armed conflict, and its end, can have powerful effects on natural resources, but the influence of war and peace on highly biodiverse tropical forests remains disputed. We found a sixfold increase in fires in protected areas across biodiversity hotspots following guerrilla demobilization in Colombia, and a 52% increase in the probability of per-pixel deforestation within parks for 2018. Peace requires urgent shifts to include real-time forest monitoring, expand programmes to pay for ecosystem services at the frontier, integrate demobilized armed groups as staff of protected areas, and establish a domestic market for frontier deforestation permits.
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