Bolivia approves controversial highway in Amazon biodiversity hotspot

Major 190-mile road will strip national park and home to thousands of indigenous people of its protected status, making it vulnerable to deforestation
Bolivia has given the go ahead to a controversial highway which would cut through an Amazon biodiversity hotspot almost the size of Jamaica and home to 14,000 mostly indigenous people. President Evo Morales enacted the new law opening the way for the 190-mile (300km) road through the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park, kn