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How to Save the Amazon part three: ask the people that know – podcast

How to Save the Amazon part three: ask the people that know – podcast

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In the final episode of a three-part series, Jon Watts 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

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As a companion to the Guardian’s Missing in the Amazon podcast,
global environment editor Jon Watts goes in search of answers to
the question Dom Phillips was investigating when he was murdered:
how can we save the Amazon? In the final episode of a three-part
series, 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. Help support our
independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod