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[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/indigenous-people-battle-squatters-timber-poachers-peruvian-amazon by Lyndsie Bourgon 12/4/19 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC] | [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/indigenous-people-battle-squatters-timber-poachers-peruvian-amazon by Lyndsie Bourgon 12/4/19 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC] | ||
Puerto Maldonado, Peru — On March 14, 2018, an alarm sounded in the ears of Jose Vargas, who was sitting at his desk in this Peruvian Amazon city. Embedded in the amber wood of a cedar tree, a small tracking device developed to spring to life at the whir of a chainsaw or crunching of boots on earth sent an alert via satellite to the offices of the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA), where Vargas works as a GIS specialist. | Puerto Maldonado, Peru — On March 14, 2018, an alarm sounded in the ears of Jose Vargas, who was sitting at his desk in this Peruvian Amazon city. Embedded in the amber wood of a cedar tree, a small tracking device developed to spring to life at the whir of a chainsaw or crunching of boots on earth sent an alert via satellite to the offices of the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA), where Vargas works as a GIS specialist. | ||
=====Rain Forest Threats===== | |||
[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/rainforest-threats by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC] | |||
More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost due to the human demand for wood and arable land. Rain forests that once grew over 14 percent of the land on Earth now cover only about 6 percent. And if current deforestation rates continue, these critical habitats could disappear from the planet completely within the next hundred years. | |||
