04-07-2017
Environmental economy helps improving the preservation of amphibians in the Brazilian Atlantic Fores
The 90% of the biodiversity related to the amphibian populations in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest –one of the most threatened tropical forests- is not a protected area yet, according to an article published in the journal Science Advances. The new study, which has the participation of the experts Gustavo Llorente and Felipe Siqueira Campos, from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona, warns about the important need of more efforts on the conservation of the area’s biodiversity, which is the natural habitat of more than 500 amphibian species, in which there is a 90% of endemic species.