image: Local communities may be essential in safeguarding forests. Upper Rio Negro, Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 20, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by H. ter Steege at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, Netherlands, and colleagues was titled, 'Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species.' view more
Credit: [Credit: © Hans ter Steege]