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Almost 400 new species discovered in the Amazon over a two-year period

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ZME Science

Publication Date
2017-08-30

The Amazon stays true to its reputation as the world’s prime biodiversity hotspot. A new report by the WWF and Brazil’s Mamiraua Institute for Sustainable Development (link in Portuguese) indicates that in 2014 and 2015, no fewer than 381 have been discovered, more than one every two days.

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http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/amazon-new-species-31082017/