How can Brazilian beef farms reduce their impacts on forests?

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Jonas Nohturfft | MBiol Student

Whether chasing after birds clutching my binoculars, or on my hand and knees in tall grass flicking through a wildflower field guide, understanding and appreciating nature has taken up a large portion of my time and thought since before I can remember. Visiting family around the world has exposed me to tangled landscapes of birds, beasts, and plants in Europe and the Americas that I have eagerly explored on foot and on my plate. Growing up both in a rural area and as an immigrant, with the compulsion to absorb the different intersecting languages, cuisines, and histories in my life, has immersed me in the powerful, reciprocal relationship between human cultures and the natural world.

Identifying, observing, and learning about birds and all wild and cultivated plants is my greatest passion. It is this that lead me to biology and brings me further to wanting to help ensure that both humans and nature can thrive in the future.