Ecuador’s Yasuní Biosphere Reserve: a brief modern history and conservation challenges
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Ecuador’s Yasunı́ Biosphere Reserve: a brief modern history and conservation challenges
Ecuador’s Yasunı́ Man and the Biosphere Reserve—located at the intersection of the Amazon, the Andes mountains, and the equator—is home to extraordinary biodiversity and a recently contacted Amazonian indigenous group known as the Waorani (or Huaorani). Relatives of the Waorani, the Tagaeri and Taromenane, still live in voluntary isolation deep in the reserve, with no peaceful contact with the o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Research Letters
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1748-9326
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/3/034005