The Morpho Institute actively builds reciprocal and long-lasting partnerships with friends and colleagues in Peru and stands with them in their fight to save their rainforest homes. We are proud to call the Maijuna our friends, colleagues and partners. Together we are moving the dial on rainforest conservation!
Learn about the importance of the Amazon at local and global scales, the threats the region faces, and how sustainable development can help save its extraordinary biodiversity and peoples for current and future generations.
The Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Educator Program provides a supportive, nurturing community where you can gain the confidence, skills, and mentoring you need to share your love of nature journaling with others.
Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon this month, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts.
At a conference on herpetology — the branch of zoology studying reptiles and amphibians — at the end of the 1980s, researchers from numerous countries began to tell of disappearing and shrinking frog and toad populations. It was found not to be an isolated situation...
It is this enormous biodiversity, along with the rainforest’s importance in regulating climate patterns and capacity to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, that makes rainforest preservation essential. This biodiversity, however, also poses a huge challenge for rainforest conservation.
Scientists warn that 10% of the Amazon has a high risk of being converted into a drier and degraded ecosystem by 2050, while 47% has a moderate transitional risk.
Educators! Join research scientists and faculty to dig deep into how Amazon biodiversity responds to a changing world. During this field research crash course, you will monitor tropical biodiversity, design research questions and contribute to long-term Morpho Institute research initiatives. Be part of the team that defines the future of teacher research in the Amazon.
We are SO excited to launch this new program in the Peruvian Amazon! Join us on a deep dive into tropical research with expert faculty and bring it all back to your classrooms! Registration is open and space is limited. Open to all K16 educators! #scienceteacher #inquiry #fieldstudies #amazonrainforest #tropicalecology #teacherpd #teachertravel
One of the objectives of the ZEE process (Zonificación Ecológica y Económica) was to assist Amazon nations in allocating their public lands among different constituencies and stakeholder groups. The group with the highest public profile, at least in recent years, is the Indigenous people who have organised a highly successful campaign to assert their territorial rights and formalise their claims to their ancestral territories.
Using the Creative Action Institute methodology, Maijuna youth in Peru were led in workshops to promote their creative expression. This cultivation process included dance, song, script-writing, painting, collage, and theatre. The process culminated in the creation of four short films, as part of the Icaro Project
Southern Amazonia is one of the less-explored regions by anuran taxonomists. We describe a small new species of snouted treefrog, genus Scinax, from this region, from a fluvial archipelago in the Juruena River, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil."
We instituted a plan to maximize the positive impact of air travel to our field sites by striving to protect a highly vulnerable tract of rainforest in Northern Peru. Learn more at https://morphoinstitute.org/climate-action-plan/
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 30% in February from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government worked toward a pledge to end illegal deforestation by 2030.
Extreme flooding and droughts may be the new norm for the Amazon, challenging its people and ecosystems" published in the February 2024 issue of Science. The scientists provided information about the studies they conducted during the extreme drought season that the Brazilian Amazon experienced in the months of September-October in 2023.
As an educator, I am always looking for unique and meaningful ways to engage students in learning about the world around them. So when the opportunity presented itself for me to participate in a research project in the Amazon rainforest with the Maijuna indigenous group, I jumped at the chance.
The largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon, exists between two rivers — but not in the way you might think. At ground level, the Amazon River and its tributaries weave their path. But above the canopy, bigger waterways are on the move. These flying rivers are almost invisible but are essential to life on Earth.
For centuries the Maijuna of Peru have struggled against colonial subjugation and cultural imperialism. Today the few hundred that remain are determined to protect their ancestral lands.
For the Maijuna of the Peruvian Amazon, harvesting honey from stingless bees is bringing prosperity and empowerment. Local beekeeping might also help preserve a vast ancestral forest.
Colombian researchers came up with a model to identify critical sites for preserving and enhancing the ecological connections between Colombia's protected areas.
Estimated to be twice the size of India and contain 10 percent of the world’s known species, the Amazon rainforest is a critically important ecosystem — but not just to the plants and animals that …
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