In October, more than 1,200 new species were made public at a United Nations summit on preserving the world’s biodiversity.

Nearly 200 of them were discovered in Peru’s Amazon jungle alone.

The area, considered to be one of the most bio-diverse places on the planet, is increasingly under threat from illegal logging, from oil and gas extraction and human migration.

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