%0 Journal Article
%T Fires in protected areas reveal unforeseen costs of Colombian peace
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%D 2018
%R https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0727-8
%X 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
%U https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0727-8