Newly-declared conservation area in Peru is home to pink dolphins, giant armadillos and woolly monkeys
Newly-declared conservation area in Peru is home to pink dolphins, giant armadillos and woolly monkeys
phys.org Newly-declared conservation area in Peru is home to pink dolphins, giant armadillos and woolly monkeys
The Amazon Basin contains the world's largest system of rainforest and rivers. Two of these rivers, the Putumayo and the Algodón, merge near the northern border of Peru, and the region shaped by these rivers is home to thousands of species of animals and plants.
The preserved area is more than 1,000 square miles, larger than New York City and Los Angeles combined. When Field Museum scientists visited the region in 2016 to conduct an inventory of wildlife, they estimated that the area is home to at least 3,000 species of plants, 550 fish species, 110 amphibians, 100 reptiles, and 160 mammals.
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