Introduction
A scientific study of water contamination in Protected Areas in Brazil has found pesticide compounds in 95% of sampled streams both inside and outside designated conservation zones, according to researchers. The findings, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, indicate that land protection regulations do not effectively buffer freshwater ecosystems from agricultural chemical contamination.
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