Newly-declared conservation area in Peru is home to pink dolphins, giant armadillos, and woolly monkeys

Indigenous communities, Field Museum scientists, local government, and more worked together to garner protection for the region, which is threatened by illegal logging and gold mining

Left: An aerial shot of the Medio Putumayo-Algodón region, which is newly protected. Right: a woolly monkey, which is classified as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Photo credit: Álvaro del Campo/Field Museum.

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