RAINFOREST EXPLORER
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New and noteworthy updates from the Amazon Rainforest & the Morpho Institute
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Peru has recognized the role of Indigenous Amazonian Peoples for ensuring the sustainable use of one the world’s most biodiverse biomes and realising its climate and conservation plans. However, community forest management, or CFM, has struggled to deliver on its promise of environmental and livelihood improvements. In Peru, as in many other tropical forest countries, […]
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In the tiny organisms, Rosa Vásquez Espinoza seeks potential solutions to big challenges, such as the need to develop new medicines.
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The Amazon Rainforest plays a critical role in global climate health, but accelerating deforestation continues to raise alarm. How are the region’s governments responding?
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“A renewed partnership between the United States and Brazil matters because both countries play an outsized role in efforts to achieve global climate and biodiversity goals...
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At his inauguration on Jan. 1 as Brazil’s new president, Inácio Lula da Silva reiterated a promise to reach zero deforestation and to recover degraded land. He’d already made the same commitment in a speech at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt in November — an event that the outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro, notably missed. […]
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The reelection of� Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil was� one of the most exciting and hopeful happenings in the world of climate change in 2022.� Lula ran on a platform that ...
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Brazil’s new president is determined to reverse Bolsonaro’s scorched-earth approach to the environment, says historian Andre Pagliarini...
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The number of fish species recorded in Madidi National Park and Natural Integrated Management Area (PNANMI), Bolivia has doubled to a staggering 333 species—with as many as 35 species new to science—according of a study conducted as part of the Identidad Madidi expedition led by the Wildlife...
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Some Brazilian scientists fear that the Amazon may become a grassy savanna — with profound effects on the climate worldwide.
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The world’s largest tropical forest spans nine countries and is home to some 30 million people and counting. It generates oxygen, it affects weather patterns the world over, it’s critical for preventing a climate crisis — and it’s facing perhaps the gravest threat in its 55-million-year existence:...
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The sun has set, and darkness takes over the world’s largest rainforest. Little by little, our senses become more acute. Moisture sticks to the skin and animal sounds become more distinct to the ears. Our eyes adjust to the dim light and our feet tread carefully over the uneven terrain. But when the camera’s flash […]
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Illegal roads have brought deforestation, fire and other environmental damage to the Amazon. Indigenous territory in many areas has blocked them.
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Brazil’s new Environment and Climate Change Minister, Marina Silva, has dedicated her life to protecting the Amazon and standing up for its people.
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Tropical forests are critical for the planet, but they’re in danger. Each year, an area the size of Portugal is deforested in the tropics. Fortunately, U.S. legislators and consumers can protect tropical forests. Learn how here.
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Forests managed by Indigenous peoples and other local communities in the Amazon region draw vast amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere while the rest of the rainforest has become a net source of the greenhouse gas, a new report has found. The discrepancy results from differences in deforestation rates between the two […]
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s new president, took office and promised to halt deforestation and to restore degraded land but plans to regenerate deforested areas remain unclear.
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Social predation spotted for the first time among these animals
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Wallace, who independently discovered the theory of evolution, relied on local knowledge to craft his seminal work on species ranges in the Amazon. Now, the region’s Indigenous scientists have taken charge of their research using this and other cross-cultural tools.
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A selection of useful online tools for experiential learning.
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Environmentalists and rights advocates around the world are celebrating Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s selection of Marina Silva and Sônia Guajajara to serve as the nation’s environment and Indigenous ministers, respectively.
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On his first day in office as Brazil's president, Lula da Silva signed a package of seven executive orders to protect the environment...
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Organized crime cartels and Chinese laborers continue draining the Amazon of jaguars and other endangered species, threatening ecosystems with collapse.
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The tipping point for the Amazon is no longer a distant scenario, but a present reality in some parts of the region.
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