Summary of Challenges for the planet

1. After this mountain erupted, next summer it was unusually cold in Europe with heavy snowfalls+ frost (7)
4. This country will experience a 50% decrease in the amount of land available to grow wheat due to drier weather (5)
5. The name of the iron mining project in Brazil (3, 7)
6. Where a training centre was opened in Brazil for the indigenous people to teach them how to manage their areas (6)
10. One tourist facility in Costa Rican forests which supported ecoutourism (3, 6)

2. The Glacier National Park in the USA is located in... (7)
3. Oil extraction in this region of Ecuador (7)
6. The Costa Rican government has allowed this American company to look for plants which can be used to make medicines or fragrances for perfumes (5)
7. In this Rainforest Reserve the government in Venezuela hasn't issued any more permits to mine gold or diamonds (7)
9. A business which stopped filling a skip of polyethene and shrink wrap 4 times/ week+ sending it to a landfill site. Now uses baling machines (4)

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