Conservation NGOs are concerned about the impact of logging. “These are mature forests that have a well-established dynamic, where every tree, every animal has its role,” says Juan Loja of ACCA (Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica). “To destroy this dynamic could be catastrophic.”
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species diversity, latin america, ecosystems, tropics, nutstory1, puerto maldonado, nutstory2, Madre de Dios, ecology, species composition, nutstory, species, biodiversity, America, PER, species richness, peru, PE.