Deep inside the leafy thicket of Nicaragua’s isolated Cerro Wawashang — a verdant and undulating nature reserve in the heart of the steamy South Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS) — Nicaragua’s newly commissioned Ecological Battalion recently struck its first blow in the army’s campaign to break a different type of international smuggling ring: timber traffickers.
Nicaraguan Military Commissions World’s First Eco-Battalion
February 13, 2012