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New species found

RESEARCHERS have found 381 new species in the Amazon rainforest, the World Wildlife Fund announced on Wednesday, warning that the discoveries were all in areas threatened by human activity.

The report by the WWF and Brazil’s Mamiraua Institute, released in Sao Paulo, listed 216 previously unknown plants, 93 fish, 32 amphibians, 19 reptiles, one bird and 20 mammals, two of them fossils.

“All the species that were discovered, all 381, are in areas where humankind is destroying the Amazon. This is very important to us,”Ricardo Mello of WWF Brazil Amazon said.




 

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