1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites
Live TV
Latest audioLatest videos
In focus
Israel-Hamas warUkrainePress freedom
Science

In Humboldt's Footsteps: Biodiversity on the Orinoco

Christian Roman
July 12, 2019

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.

https://p.dw.com/p/3LfSA