Warming could ravage a third of plants used by Amazon communities
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Warming could ravage a third of plants used by Amazon communities
Over centuries, the Amazon’s hundreds of Indigenous societies have built up an abundance of knowledge about the rainforest’s thousands of plant species and how to use them. The post Warming could ravage a third of plants used by Amazon communities appeared first on West Hawaii Today.
A research shows that man-induced climate changes can impact the forest's heritage and reduce by up to one third the native plant species used by indigenous peoples in the Amazon basin. According to studies, the reduction of plants of cultural importance, combined with the projected extinction of indigenous languages, can result in the loss of about a quarter of documented knowledge about the uses of Amazonian plant species until the end of the …
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