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Highlighting Biodiversity: Spectacular Birds and the Amazon River

Academy of Natural Sciences

The Amazon Rainforest. Few places are as evocative of biodiversity as the Amazon Rainforest, a region of South America that occupies just 0.5% Roughly 1,300 bird species call the Amazon Rainforest their home, as do more than 3,000 species of fishes and countless primates, butterflies, orchids, frogs and more. Lukas Musher/ANS.

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Tom Lovejoy Tribute

ESA

His optimism, generosity, and compassion inspired an amazing spectrum of ecologists, conservation biologists, economists, politicians, celebrities, and students. His early experience in the Amazon began a life-long love of tropical biology and conservation.

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