Can a new high-tech tool predict extinction-prone areas?
Back from Brazil, biologist Stuart Pimm recounts the unpredictable Brazilian bird quest that put the tool to the test and reveals what it’s really like on a National Geographic research expedition. The rain forest in Rio’s backyard originally covered an area nearly twice the size of Texas. Beset by human sprawl, Brazil’s Atlantic forest today covers less than 7 percent of its original extent.
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