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Aerial Spray to Colombia´s Illicit Cultivation

Aerial Spray to Colombia´s Illicit Cultivation. Coca Opium Popys By Paloma Valencia. Plan Colombia. The plan included a donation of 1.7 billion of dollars for the fight against drug supply. Glyphosate Roundup herbicide of Monsanto Company 10.4 liters (2.75 gallons) of per hectare

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Aerial Spray to Colombia´s Illicit Cultivation

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  1. Aerial Spray to Colombia´s Illicit Cultivation Coca Opium Popys By Paloma Valencia

  2. Plan Colombia The plan included a donation of 1.7 billion of dollars for the fight against drug supply. Glyphosate Roundup herbicide of Monsanto Company10.4 liters (2.75 gallons) of per hectare Cosmo-Flux 411F -not registered in the United States

  3. Location Illicit Cultivation Most in primary forest • 6.000 to 8.100 hectares of Andes Mountain Forest or Upper Mountain Forest, • 101.250 Low lands forest of the Orinoquia – surrounded of the river Orinoco, the third biggest river in the world-, Amazonian • Choco forest –located beside the pacific ocean -hot spot

  4. 152 Million tons of Biomass Destroyed • Fragmentation • Logging, for 1 coca hectare 3 of forest are destroyed. For 1 hectare of Opium Poppy, 2.5 of forest are destroyed • Herbicides, Gliphosate and Toxic wastes,1 kilo of basic cocaine past 1,9 liters of sulfuric acid, 1,25 liters or ammoniac, 193,75 liters of polluted water and 625 kilograms of vegetable residues • Is the second most diverse country in the world • 0.7% of the Earth’s land,and 10% biodiversity • 680,000 square kilometers of tropical rain forest, • 55,000 plant species, 1,721 bird species, and 430 species of frogs.

  5. SOCIAL Health impacts Licit cultivation spray Mixed cultivation spray Illicit cultivation belong in 60% to poor peasents. Ineficient Reclamation system ENVIRONMENTAL Natural Parks become attractive for growing because they are not sprayed. In June 2003, it was authorized Movement of the cultivation, 5 years Fumigation Consequences

  6. The EPA report says that formulations are more toxic than glyphosate alone. Effects in semen characteristics in rabbits Interfere with the cell cycle regulations Affects mammalian fertility Studies are based in temperate ecosystems public health precaution principle balloon effect 180 millions consumers- 650 tons of drugs per year, 300t US and 100t Europe Rio de Janeiro Declaration Glyphosate

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