Data Collection in the Amazon
The numbers for all the big questions about the Amazon rain forest - how many species there are, how much of the forest is gone, how much the carbon dioxide from the fires is contributing to the greenhouse effect - are blowing in the wind. There are only educated guesses, faiths, and political positions. How can you begin to quantify the extent of the destruction, for instance - a highly controversial question to which careers are devoted - when, as we shall see, there isn't even agreement on the size of the seven states and territories, and the parts of two others, that constitute legal Amazonia? (Shoumatoff, 1990).

Above: Primitive conditions at a scientific research station in the Peruvian Rainforest. Photo: Larry Cartmill

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