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Revisited: How to save the Amazon episode three: ask the people that know

Revisited: How to save the Amazon episode three: ask the people that know

Science Weekly vor 11 Monaten

In the final episode of a three-part series from June 2025, Jon encounters a radical new view of the Amazon’s history being uncovered by archaeologists. Far from an uninhabited wilderness, the rainforest has been shaped by indigenous peoples for thousands

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Global environment editor Jon Watts goes in search of answers to
the question the journalist Dom Phillips was investigating when he
was murdered: how to save the Amazon? In the final episode of this
three-part series from June 2025, Jon encounters a radical new view
of the Amazon’s history being uncovered by archaeologists. Far from
an uninhabited wilderness, the rainforest has been shaped by
indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Jon finds out how their
expert knowledge could be harnessed to secure the Amazon’s future.
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