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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Indigenous Lands Help Protect Amazon Forests, Study Finds


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A section of rain forest near Manaus, Brazil.

New research has shown that reserve areas established for Brazil's indigenous peoples are as effective as uninhabited nature parks in preventing destruction to rain forests in the Amazon.

Photograph by Don Deening/NASA/LBA Project