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With no sparrows to eat them, locust populations ballooned, swarming the country and compounding the ecological problems already caused by the Great Leap Forward, including widespread deforestation and misuse of poisons and pesticides.[1] Ecological imbalance is credited with exacerbating the Great Chinese Famine, in which at least 20 million people died of starvation.[5][6]"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[29.893799,-2.010086,0]},"properties":{"name":"The effect of Civil War on the Environment","styleUrl":"#icon-959-F4EB37","styleHash":"-212b7daa","icon":"http://climateviewer.org/img/icons/orange-blank.png","description":"Lenntec (http://www.lenntech.com/environmental-effects-war.htm)\n \nRwanda. 1994 civil war combat caused a biodiversity problem when over 200,000 refugees were forced to inhabit forest reserves in the mountains where endangered gorillas lived. 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The federal Environmental Protection Agency cautioned state officials about potential health risks associated with leaky equipment and corroded stacks allowing underwater leaching and spills from Coronet, but residents were not notified of ongoing problems with the company's lack of environmental controls. The state Department of Environmental Protection Secretary David Struhs expressed concern over \"potential systemic problems that prevented the situation from being identified and corrected sooner\" in the Tampa office of the DEP. 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