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Archive Home > 2009 > December > 02 > Key element of Peruvian ecosystem is vanishing

Key element of Peruvian ecosystem is vanishing

Depletion of desert’s huarango trees alarms ecologists

By Simon Romero / The Bulletin
December 2, 2009

ICA, Peru — A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city’s edge. The tree has provided the inhabitants of this desert with food and timber since before the Nazca civilization etched....

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