$10M in Prize Money for Mapping Rainforest Biodiversity

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By MongabayDec 2, 2019, 2:33 pm324 pts
Efforts to catalog the fast-declining biodiversity of tropical rainforests just got a $10 million boost via a new competition from XPRIZE, an organization that has more than a dozen competitions on topics ranging from spaceflight to oil cleanup over the past 25 years. None Last week, XPRIZE formally unveiled…

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