| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.4

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People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America. Edited by Kirsten M. Silvius, Richard E. Bodmer, and Jose M. V. Fragaso. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xiii + 464 pp. Charts, tables, maps, bibliography, index, $39.50.

Biological diversity plays a critical role in maintaining the ecological processes upon which people, ecosystems and economies depend. South and Central America are widely accepted as repositories of some of the world's richest biodiversity. The region, in fact, contains five of the world's ten most biologically diverse countries—Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru — and the eastern slope of the tropical Andes is one of the single most biologically rich areas on the planet. South and Central America are also areas of immense cultural diversity. In the Amazon Basin more than two hundred groups of "first peoples" still inhabit their ancestral lands. Living along side Amazonian and other indigenous cultures are numerous groups that were either brought over or followed primarily the Spanish and Portuguese to the New World. More than five centuries of coexistence and intermingling have spawned dynamic Latin American societies, each of which is grounded in a unique environment and landscape.

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