Papped snaffling in the jungle, a striking set of photos reveal the secret lives of Amazonian crop-raiding animals.
Papped snaffling in the jungle, a striking set of photos reveal the secret lives of Amazonian crop-raiding animals.
A new study from the University of East Anglia (UK) identifies the Amazon’s ‘worst offending’ crop destroyers - and highlights the problems caused for rural communities.
The research team spent a year working with 47 Amazonian communities in the Juruá region of Amazonas, Brazil.
They set up 132 motion-activated camera traps and took over 61,000 photos that reveal 11 crop-raiding animals, which were identified in interviews. Collared peccaries, red brocket deer, paca and agoutis are identified as the most damaging.
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Image: Papped snaffling in the jungle, a striking set of photos reveal the secret lives of Amazonian crop-raiding animals. (Credit: University of East Anglia)
