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Ecosystem in Peru Is Losing a Key Ally

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Sun Nov 8, 2:26 am ET

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 geoglyphs into the empty plain south of here about 2,000 years ago.

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