An Attempt to Protect One of the Last Great Forests

In the article “Peru Moves to Protect ‘One of the Last Great Intact Forests’” by JoAnna Klein from the New York Times. Talks about the rain forests of Peru’s northeast corner and the Yaguas National Park.  A national park created by Peru to protect the wildlife that lives there. Klein talks about Yaguas National Park and the United States’ potential weakening of protection for wildlife, stating “Trump has made a priority of scaling back national monuments like Bears Ears in Utah,…”.  Then she goes on to talk about the park, it’s creation, What it does, how it is maintaining itself, and the research done to help protect it find out more at this link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/science/peru-yaguas-national-park.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront

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