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In Panama’s Darién forest, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

Their biodiversity monitoring project recorded more than 200 species across 18,000 hectares (44,500 acres) of threatened […]

In Panama’s Darién forest, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

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Their biodiversity monitoring project recorded more than 200 species across 18,000 hectares (44,500 acres) of threatened […]

With illegal logging and agricultural expansion closing in on their lands, four Indigenous Wounaan and Emberá-Wounaan villages in Panama's Darién forest started a biodiversity monitoring project to document...

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Their biodiversity monitoring project recorded more than 200 species across 18,000 hectares (44,500 acres) of threatened […] With illegal logging and agricultural expansion closing in on their lands, four Indigenous Wounaan and Emberá-Wounaan villages in Panama's Darién forest started a biodiversity monitoring project to document their forests' conservation status, reports Mongabay contributor María Paula Rubiano A.

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With illegal logging and agricultural expansion closing in on their lands, four Indigenous Wounaan and Emberá-Wounaan villages in Panama's Darién forest started a biodiversity monitoring project to document their forests' conservation status, reports Mongabay contributor María Paula Rubiano A.

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