5 NEWS ABOUT OUR ENVIRONMENT IN OUR COUNTRY "ECUADOR" 1. DEFORESTATION IN AMAZON REGION CAUSES DEAD. In Ecuador, the most common cause of deforestation is the expansion of the agricultural frontier. Researchers from the LaForeT project found that people living in or near tropical forests have been forced to convert certain forest areas to agricultural systems. This threatens the environment and its nature, turning it into a point of pollution and at the same time generating diseases for people. The Amazon will lose around 860,000 hectares due to deforestation in 2021, according to a projection made by the Andean Amazon Monitoring Project, which tracks the loss of Amazon forests through satellite images. 2. INFORMAL MINING INDUSTRY IN ZARUMA. On the night of this Wednesday, December 15, the sinking of land not only affected families, it also suffered the total collapse of a house and one more destroyed, both cultural heritage; while more tan one house had damage. Despite the