Migration route takes an environmental hit

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The Darien Gap, the heavily forested jungle which half a million migrants cross each year, has become heavily polluted. Host Marco Werman speaks with Max Villalobos of the group Global Conservation about the environmental devastation to this area of Panama at the Colombian border, and the impact on the Indigenous people who call it home.

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