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Amazon emissions lowest from Indigenous and protected lands, scientists say

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Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Indigenous lands and protected areas in the Amazon rainforest account for just 10 per cent of all carbon emissions from tropical forests spread across the nine countries of the Amazon in South America, researchers said on Monday. The Amazon, as the world’s largest tropical rainforest, is considered key to the fight […]