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Peru

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Double whammy

Healthy rise

In population of endangered camel species

A friendly air wave

Radio>> Indigenous People • Peru

Troubled waters

Peru investigating death of 500 sea lions

While the government has accused fishers of poisoning them, environmentalists are probing other causes, including ingestion of plastic and disease

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Magic drop

Easy to administer oral diarrhoea vaccine tested in Bangladesh

Peru's war on 'biopiracy'

Farmers in Peru irate over US patents on 'natural viagra'

Invader's curse

For love of Amazon

Film>> RAINFORESTS • Peru/France

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Rustling for hair

Plagued plantations

Farmers in the Peruvian highlands learn that all's not well with their produce, land and health

Prized tag

Feeding frenzy

14 fly species and 18 species of wasps found living in a single tropical flower, feeding on each other

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Counting large mammals

Floral trouble

In sharp contrast to earlier estimates, a new study claims that nearly half the world's flora species face extinction

Bolivia losing forest cover at alarming rate

The Philippines, Indonesia, and Peru also witness increase in deforestation, suggests NASA data

In Short

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