‘Join us for the Amazon,’ Indigenous leaders tell IUCN in push for protection

Mongabay
Sep 8, 2021, 11:58 am184 pts
MARSEILLE, France — Indigenous leaders and conservationists are asking for support in a critical effort to protect 80% of the Amazon Basin by 2025. According to scientists, the region is rapidly approaching, or has already reached, a tipping point that would push the rainforest into a savanna-like state that…

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