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April 7, 2:31 PM
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Nectar-loving tree frog likely moves pollen from flower to flower
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April 8, 3:26 PM
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The Morpho Institute is now an official 1% for the Planet Nonprofit Partner — Our work connecting educators to the Amazon rainforest is now eligible to receive giving from 1% member businesses. Do you have a contact at a 1% FtP Member business? We would love for you to introduce us!
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May 2, 8:54 AM
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This is a rich resource for your classroom! This StoryMap from Amazon Conservation Team explores how Isolated Indigenous Peoples in South America are protected and threatened across the Amazon and Gran Chaco. FANTASTIC!
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April 13, 8:38 AM
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An antbird long thought to be a single widespread species across the Amazon rainforest is, in fact, several different ones. Among them are two newly-described species -- Cercomacra mura and Cercomacra raucisona -- that inhabit separate regions of southern Amazonia.
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May 2, 8:58 AM
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Just some of the great PD offered by our Canadian friends at the Outdoor Learning School! Check them out - you'll find a resource-rich environment and some amazing humans too!
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April 29, 11:57 AM
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A new regional conservation area has been created in Loreto, the largest region in Peru’s Amazon. The Medio Putumayo Algodón Regional Conservation Area is the fourth protected natural area in the Putumayo region, an area connected by the Putumayo River, which flows into Colombia.
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April 29, 9:31 AM
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Many view conservation as a ledger of discrete gains—acres saved or species rebounded—but for Gary Tabor, the more vital metric is architecture. He focuses on systems that hold when pressure builds. Few careers illustrate that preoccupation better than that of Tabor, an ecologist and wildlife veterinarian whose work prioritizes the relationship between places as much […]
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April 19, 9:12 PM
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Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify humans.
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February 17, 11:53 AM
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Hot off the Press! Our 2025 Annual Report tells the story of how Morpho is Educating for Conservation and helping teachers translate AWE in the Amazon into Action in the Classroom. Thanks to our donors, faculty, board, and our outstanding alumni for making 2025 an outstanding year. Enjoy!
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December 8, 2025 9:27 AM
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Whether this is your first gift or another step in your journey with us, thank you for supporting conservation education. Donate today with the QR code or via this link: https://morphoinstitute.org/donate/
This memoir is a creative account of Dr. Brian Griffiths’s research on mammal ecology and conservation conducted in collaboration with the Indigenous Maijuna people of Peru.
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April 13, 8:36 AM
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In an unprecedented study shedding light on the dynamic shifts occurring within the vast Amazon rainforest, researchers have unveiled a remarkable trend: the canopy is rejuvenating through the production of an increasing fraction of young, photosynthetically efficient leaves.
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April 29, 12:37 PM
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Did you know that Morpho partners with Esri and GISetc on a story mapping project? Together we provide the tools and resources for our participants to create story maps about their experience in the Amazon. Check out this one by Heather Burakiewicz, ARIE 2025 and learn more about her deep dive into the Maijuna community of Sucusari!
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April 29, 4:57 PM
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INTRODUCING OUR NEW LIMITED EDITION MERCH! ONLY AVAILABLE FOR THE 2026 FIELD SEASON - FROM MAY TO AUGUST! Every 2026 limited edition purchase helps refill our Educators in the Amazon Scholarship Fund. Original quote from Dr. Ro Ruiz on the front. Morpho Logo on the back. What color do you want?
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April 29, 12:56 PM
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From downloadable K-12 curriculum to interactive story maps and field research, these resources are built to help anyone — educators, students, and curious minds alike — discover and protect the Amazon.
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April 29, 11:59 AM
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Deep in Peru’s northern Amazon, the Maijuna are one of the country’s smallest Indigenous groups, numbering only about 500–600 people. In 2015, after years of advocacy, they secured the creation of the Maijuna-Kichwa Regional Conservation Area, a 391,000-hectare reserve that legally recognizes their ancestral lands. This was a historic victory, giving the Maijuna the power to protect their forests, rivers, and wildlife from outside exploitation.Yet recognition on paper has not stopped real threat
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April 13, 8:32 AM
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Transforming satellite imagery of the Amazon basin into expressive typography, FutureBrand São Paulo anchors the branding for a new Brazilian tourism and development initiative to the spectacular waterways that define it. [Watch]
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August 26, 2025 1:40 PM
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Let's Talk Phenomena: Do you know about our AWE Playlist on YouTube?
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April 29, 11:56 AM
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Introduction The Bellavista-Mazán-Salvador-El Estrecho highway (the Bellavista-El Estrecho highway) in the Peruvian Amazon is a planned megadevelopment project that illustrates the challenges facing Indigenous peoples and their ancestral lands. This project poses significant threats to the biocultural diversity of the region.
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April 23, 7:05 AM
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How many species do we share our planet with? How many of these species have we found and identified?
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October 31, 2025 9:50 AM
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BIG NEWS!! The Morpho Institute is aligning its conservation education programs with the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) to empower teachers as biodiversity leaders. Explore how we are building bridges to connect education to global action for nature. Learn more here.
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April 13, 8:39 AM
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How long would you last by yourself… in the Amazon rainforest… after surviving a plane crash? Although this sounds like a work of fiction, Ellen Cochrane’s new book, Follow the Water, is an account of Juliane Koepcke’s unbelievable survival story.
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April 15, 8:06 AM
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The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to stop biodiversity losses. Approximately 60% of tropical forests have already been lost or severely degraded, making restoration essential to achieve conservation goals. Assessment of how 16 taxonomic groups in a lowland tropical forest resist and recover from anthropogenic disturbance shows the potential of protecting naturally regenerating secondary forests to reverse biodiversity losses.
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April 13, 8:40 AM
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A new study reveals how wild meat underpins food security, culture and conservation across Amazonia, highlighting the risks of deforestation and misguided policy.
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April 13, 8:35 AM
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The authors mapped the continental-scale fraction of age-dependent leaf area index and revealed a widespread increase in the fraction of photosynthetically efficient young leaves across the majority of Amazon rainforests over the past decades.
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