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Deforestation in the Amazon to create farmland

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News Spotlight: Indigenous land stewardship key to preserving Amazon carbon sinks

By Matthew Ribel

January 23, 2023

In case you missed it: The Amazon is the ecological jewel of the world, home to nearly 400 billion trees and 10,000 species at risk of extinction. It’s also the world’s largest terrestrial carbon sink. Yet a new report shows those climate benefits are not uniformly distributed.

A camera-trap image of a western gorilla in Nouabale-ndoki National Park, Republic of Congo.

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Wildlife loss in tropical forests is bad news — and not just for animals

By Jorge Ahumada, Ph.D.

April 27, 2016

New research sheds light on the link between species loss and forests’ ability to fight climate change.