Two months after visiting Manu National Park in the Peruvian Amazon for Prof. Alex Trillo's tropical terrestrial biology course, a group of Gettysburgians are now in shock.
The land they just saw thriving is being threatened-because the Amazon is ablaze.
Wildfires began sweeping the Brazilian jungles in August, and continued in Bolivia.
Manu National Park-known for its rich diversity and serving as home to hundreds of species, including birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles, in the southeast of Peru-could be affected next.
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