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Stage #5: Biodiversity on the Orinoco

More than 200 years ago, Alexander von Humboldt explored 2,500 kilometers of the Orinoco river system. The species-rich wilderness thrilled the German naturalist. Today a biologist is struggling to preserve the area's threatened biodiversity.

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