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Show Amazon Area Now Testing Site Brazil in co operation with" UNESCO, was organized a year ago at Iquitos, Peru. Signatories to the 1IHA convention conven-tion are Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela. Bolivia. Ecuador France. Holland and Italy The convention comes into force when five states of the Hylean Amazon region have ratified it. Ecuador and Colombia already have rati-fied rati-fied the proposal and France, ncting for French Guiana, has endorsed en-dorsed it UNESCO said it hopes to get down to the real survey job this year UNESCO Director General Jaime Torres Bodet of Mexico called the IIHA "a perfect example ex-ample of how projects for underdeveloped under-developed regions can and must go hand in hand with direct economic eco-nomic assistance." U. N. Plans Survey Of Possibilities LAKE SUCCESS, N Y. -Three million square miles of South America have been staked out as a testing ground for aid to underdeveloped under-developed areas of the world. A head start already has been made by scientists seeking to gear the riches of the Hylean Amazon area to social and economic progress. prog-ress. Top priority has been given to research by the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural cultur-al organization Preliminary field surveys have been undertaken. Findings are not complete, but have stimulated great optimism on the potential contributions the region can make to world-wide economic advancement. advance-ment. The Hylean Amazon is as large as Europe, almost as big as the United States and 20 times as large ns the United Kingdom. It sprawls from the Andes on the west to the Atlantic on the 'ast and from the Orinoco river on the north southward to t h e mountains of Bolivia. All tributary waters flow into the Amazon. It includes parts of Brazil, Bolivia, Bo-livia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and British, Dutch and French Guianas. With its two million inhabitants it is one of the most sparsely populated popu-lated areas in the world. The international character and scientific significance of the region re-gion is shown by the interest in its exploration by such outside nations na-tions as the United States, France, Netherlands, Britain and Italy. Scientific missions have made muny trips into Amazonia in the past. But their long and difficult tasks remained largely fruitless for want of a permanent center to co-ordinate their findings and do something about them. The International Institute of the Hylean Amazon, inspired by |