Targeted conservation in Brazil could help protect the Amazon's flying rivers
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Amazon Conservation's new report identifies specific forest pathways critical to maintaining 'flying rivers'—atmospheric moisture flows that provide over 70% of rainfall in parts of southern Peru and northern Bolivia—and proposes targeted conservation strategies to protect them as deforestation threatens the Amazon's recycling capacity.
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