Scientists agree that preserving the Amazon rainforest is vital to combating global warming, but new data recently indicate huge swathes of the jungle that are most vital to the world’s climate remain unprotected. Nearly 40 per cent of the areas of the Amazon rainforest most critical to curbing climate change have not been granted special government protection, as either nature or indigenous reserves, according to an analysis by non-profit Amazon Conservation. The areas lie in the far southwest of the Amazon in Peru and the far northeast in Brazil, French Guiana, and Suriname, the data show. Those parts of the Amazon have the biggest, densest trees and the most continuous canopy cover, said Matt Finer, who leads Amazon Conservation’s Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP).

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