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December 13, 2016

A roadmap for guiding development and conservation in the Amazon
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2016
Scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), The Nature Conservancy, and several partners in Brazil and Peru have produced a geographic information system (GIS) "roadmap" to help guide conservation efforts at large scale in the Amazon River basin, a region roughly the size of the United States. The new spatial framework - created with several major data sets and GIS technology - is made up of a new hydrological and river basin classification, along with various spatial analysis tools, that ... read more

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