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biodiversity & climate change mapping, North America
July 2020 New Models Show How Species Will be Relocated by Climate Change
June 2020 [NASA] NASA Fosters Innovative Ways to Understand Biodiversity

global tropical deforestation patches getting bigger
Nov 2017 Tropical deforestation is getting bigger - MongaBay
May 2017 Larger swaths of tropical forest being lost to commercial agriculture
     Science Daily,  Brazil Monitor

shorebird habitat shrinking in California
April 2017 Calif-NPR: Satellites see 30 years of decreasing shorebird habitat
April 2017 Shorebirds, science into practice-rice growers

endangered Peruvian primate- movement between fragments
April 2016 Connectivity mapping helps endangered primate – Science Daily 
   Link to paper 
Jan 2016 Collaboration with Proyecto Mono Tocon, Peru– weebly.com
​Jan 2015 Continuing health/mercury work in Peru ––NPR

biodiversity patterns in the Andes-Amazon region
   Link to paper - open source
Feb 2012  Andes Biodiversity Threatened – — Science, News of the Week
Feb 2012 Rising temperatures push Andean species skyward – -- E&E Publishing
Jan 2012 New Biodiversity Map of the Andes – — Science Newsline
Jan 2012 Los Andes: desprotegidos y amenazados — BBC World Report-Latin America “Mundo”
​Feb 2012 Majority of Andes’ biodiversity hotspots remain unprotected –— MongaBay.com 

Aug 2012  Swenson named Director of Professional Studies Program,
     School of Environment, Duke University
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gold mining & deforestation in Peru
     Link to paper - open source
June 2012 Peru battles the golden curse of Madre de Dios – —  Nature
Dec 2011 Dispatch: Gold rush drives deforestation, pollution – — Conservation Magazine
Oct  2011  All that Glitters  – — Geographical Magazine
Oct 10, 2011 Gold of the Conquistadors, Radio – BBC 4
May 03, 2011 – Midas & Mercury – — Conservation Magazine 
April 19, 2011 – Deforestación en Amazonía peruana – — Peru’s El Comercio
April 26, 2011 – Deforestation goes into hyperdrive with rising gold price – — ScienceaGoGo
April 24, 2011 – Rising Price of Gold Fuels Destruction of Amazon – — LiveScience.com
April 22, 2011 – Amazon Forest and the Price of Gold – — USNews.com 
April 20, 2011 – Forests: Deforestation in Peru’s Amazon is driven by high gold prices – — E&E News (Climate Wire) edit
April 20, 2011 – Hoher Goldpreis zerstört Regenwald in Peru – — Science.orf.at 
April 20, 2011 – Illegale Schürfer: Teures Gold zerstört den Regenwald – — Der Spiegel
April 20, 2011 – A new Threat to the Amazon: Gold – — Scientific American
April 20, 2011 – El aumento del precio del oro multiplica por seis la deforestación del Amazonas– — Europapress.es 
April 20, 2011 – Demand for gold pushing deforestation in Peruvian Amazon – --Mongabay.com 
April 20, 2011 – As Gold Prices Go Up, Forest are Coming Down – — Discover News 
April 20, 2011 – Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’ – — Independent Online (www.iol.co.za) 

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Connectivity for Callicebus onanthe in San Martin, Peru

Avian endemic richness, Peru

Gold mining; this was once forest. MongaBay