Bolivia approves highway through Amazon biodiversity hotspot

National park which is home to thousands of indigenous people loses protected status to allow for construction of 190-mile road
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, known as Tipnis, its Spani