Sunday, November 8, 2009

Ecosystem in Peru Is Losing a Key Ally

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/world/americas/08peru.html?ref=earth

November 7, 2009
The New York Times
By Simon Romero

Brief Summary:
The Peruvian tree, which has provided food and timber to the desert in Peru, has been doing so since before the Nazca civilization etched geoglyphs, can live over a millennium. There has been depletion of the huarango, which is causing ecologists to worry and save it.

Short Response:
We are cutting off one of our own limbs as we destroy a huarango. Woodcutters use handsaws at night to avoid detection, which shows they know what they are doing is wrong and should be stopped, as it should.

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