In Peru’s Forests, New Discoveries Signal Encroaching Dangers
Peru is home to more than 200,000 square miles of forest land. Photo credit: tadd_debbie / Creative Commons Peru is famous for the Andes Mountains , but more than 60 percent of the country is covered by the Amazon rainforest—making the country a hotbed of biodiversity and the site of frequent species discoveries. Indeed, every year, a new bird is discovered in Peru and every four years a new mammal i… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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