The climate fight may not be won in the Amazon, but it can be lost there

Mongabay
Jan 5, 2026, 10:48 am187 ptsTop
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. After five decades studying the plants and peoples of the Amazon, Mark Plotkin, an ethnobotanist and co-founder of the Amazon Conservation Team, is still asked whether the…

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