From slash-and-burn to Amazon heroes: new video series highlights agricultural transformation

Mongabay: A new series of short films is celebrating the innovation of rural farmers in the Manu region of Peru. Home to jaguars, macaws, and tapirs, the Manu region is also one of the top contenders for the world's most biodiverse place. It faces a multitude of threats from road-building to mining to gas and oil concessions. Still the impact of smallscale slash-and-burn farming-once seen as the greatest threat to the Amazon and other rainforest-may be diminishing as farmers, like the first film's Reynaldo......

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