Microplastics Found in Mexican Howler Monkeys Living in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
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Households near the reserve burn plastic waste, releasing pollutants that travel by air and settle on the leaves the monkeys eat. By Andrés Muedano For thousands of years, Mexican howler monkeys have inhabited the lush rainforest canopy of what is now Los Tuxtlas—a 155,000-acre UNESCO biosphere reserve in the eastern state of Veracruz, 325 miles […]