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Huge Swath Amazon Preserved in Record-Setting Deal
2014-05-26 20:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: On May 21, the Brazilian government, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and partners announced the creation of a $215 million fund to ensure long-term protection of the world's largest network of protected areas 150 million acres of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. It's not often as conservationists that we get to celebrate such a big win. I've been working in the Amazon for 25 years originally studying the ecology and behavior of spider monkeys but not until today have I been able to claim such...
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