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  1. Rumble in the jungle
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Could Peru's uncontacted Amazonian tribes be wiped out by oil giants? Not if they don't exist.
  2. Scientists: protect vast Amazon peatland to avoid palm oil 'environmental disaster'
    A recently discovered peatland in northeast Peru contains two years worth of US carbon emissions, writes Joe Sandler Clarke, but it's under
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The peatland in Pastaza-Marañón Foreland Basin in northeast Peru - discovered in 2009 by Finnish scientist Outi Lähteenoja - is said to contain 3.14 gigatons of carbon, roughly equivalent to two years of CO2 emissions from the United States. Scientists have said that economic development in the region, like road-building and the arrival of commercial agriculture threatens the important ecosystem.

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