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Peru Sets Up National Park To Protect 'one Of The Last Great Intact Forests'
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As Donald Trump weakens environmental protections in the US, Peru approves a new national park to preserve millions of acres of the Amazon, its endangered species and indigenous people
The rainforests in Peru’s remote north-west corner are vast – so vast that the clouds that form above them can influence rainfall in the western United States. The region contains species, especially unusual fish, that are unlike any found elsewhere on Earth. Scientists studying the area’s flora and fauna may gain insights into evolutionary processes and into the ecological health and geological history of the Amazon.
Now the region has become home to one of the Western Hemisphere’s newest national parks. Yaguas National Park will protect millions of acres of roadless wilderness – and the indigenous people who rely on it – from development and deforestation.
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