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Amazon: Indigenous peoples catalog species to protect biodiversity

An initiative that combines ancestral indigenous knowledge with academic science is compiling an inventory of species found in the Panará indigenous territory in the Amazon. Nearly 15,000 specimens of regional flora and fauna have already been recorded across 500,000 hectares along the border between the states of Pará and Mato Grosso. The project is led by Conservation International (CI-Brazil)…

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