One of the planet’s most beautiful landscapes is in danger. Deep in southern Venezuela, among ancient forested tabletop mountains known as tepuis, crystalline rivers, and breathtaking waterfalls, outside influences – malaria, the high price of gold, commercial hunting, and cultural erosion – are threatening one of world’s largest remaining blocks of wilderness, one that is home to indigenous people and strikingly high levels of biological diversity.
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Cultural erosion among indigenous groups in Venezuela brings new risks for Caura rainforest