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New reserve in Peru protect nearly a million acres of pristine forest

2015-06-26 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: A tract of Peruvian rainforest bigger than California's Yosemite National Park is officially more protected, with formal declaration of the Maijuna-Kichwa Regional Conservation Area (RCA) made last week in Lima. Those involved with the reserve's formation hope it will safeguard the area's biodiversity as well as the ancestral homeland and way of life of local indigenous communities. Northeastern Peru, sandwiched between Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil, still has large tracts of forest untouched...

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