Rosanne Skirble – Voice of America, 8/14/2012 The Atlantic
forest in Brazil, once a part of the great Amazon basin on the
South American continent, is suffering from widespread species
loss according to a new study. Ecologist Carlos Peres with
England’s University of East Anglia and then University of
Cambridge graduate student Gustavo Canale traveled through the
region between 2003 and 2005. They documented 200 of the largest
and least disturbed old-growth forest fragments in the vast
region of the Atlantic forest. On average, they found only four
of the 18 mammal species they were looking for. Canale, now
working in Brazil at the State University of Mato Grosso, says
he and Peres drew largely on information from wildlife surveys,
camera traps, and interviews with local people.