Scientists have discovered that the sloth is not as lazy as popularly believed. The researchers found that sloths in the wild doze for less than 10 hours, compared with 16 hours for those in captivity. Read the BBC article.
Good news for the Amazon. (At last!) The Brazilian government announced February 14 the expansion of the Amazon National Park and creation of seven new environmental protected areas in the western part of Pará state. The new areas bring the total protected area in Pará to 6.4 million hectares (15.8 million acres), about the size of West Virginia.
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