Naturalists’ Visit to Paraguay Halted for Fear of Infecting Natives
Photo: cuencadelplata After great pressure from the Paraguayan government and local campaigners, an expedition to a remote part of the Amazon by the prestigious Natural History Museum in London has been suspended. A team of one hundred scientists, botanists and biologists were planning an expedition to isolated parts of Paraguay in their search for new species of plants and insects. However there were fears that they would meet up with tribes of natives in the area who had never been exposed to people outside the Amazon. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Naturalists’ Visit to Paraguay Halted for Fear of Infecting Natives
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