The valuable peatlands of Peru’s Pastaza River Fan: one of the world’s largest carbon reservoirs
via news.mongabay.com
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On the banks of the Pastaza River, in Peru’s northern Datem del Marañón province, Kietre Gonzales remembers just how close his childhood home was to the aguajales, the swampy palm forests so common in this part of the Peruvian Amazon. But over time, the landscape began to change. The aguajes (Mauritia flexuosa), the palms that […]