Trees in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest depend heavily on primates for their survival, but agriculture and deforestation are threatening them both.
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For one of Earth’s most biodiverse forests, 21,000 years of natural change pale in comparison to modern, man-made climate breakdown.
Enabling wildlife to journey across farmlands not only benefits conservation, but also people. It means bees can improve crop pollination, and seed-dispersing birds can help restore ecosystems.
Yerba mate is a wildly popular South American tea with a growing global market. Can this ‘superfood’ save Paraguay’s tropical forests, too?
Humans have never known a world without the Araucaria. But rising temperatures and changing rainfall mean that the extinction of these majestic trees may be just a generation or two away.
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Knowledge Exchange Fellow, University of York
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Research Fellow, Conservation Science, Deakin University
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Professor, School of Communication, Northern Arizona University
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Professor of Ecology, The University of Queensland
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Federal University of Lavras
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Colaborador de la Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
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Director del Centre de Recursos de Biodiversitat Animal (CRBA) de la Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
