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. 2015 Jul 27;13(7):e1002208. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002208

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Fig 1 — Forest cover (dark green) in the year 2000; little has changed since. The corridor extending from Caribbean to Pacific is the only place in Central America beyond the Panama-Colombia border where forest spans the isthmus. It is also among the best lowland tropical forest easily accessible to ecotourists anywhere. Without question, it would not be there had the US decided to put the Canal elsewhere.