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November 13, 2021 8:01 AM
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Panel of 200 scientists tells Cop26 Indigenous people, business, governments and scientists must collaborate
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October 28, 2021 8:33 AM
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Knowing the steps is not the same thing as knowing how to dance. Similarly, policy interventions to stop deforestation are most effective when enacted in a certain order, according to a new Stanford study. The first-of-its-kind analysis, published today (October 27, 2021) in Global Sustainability
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October 24, 2021 10:14 AM
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The Science Panel for the Amazon prepares to launch its first report, the most comprehensive document on the rain forest so far.
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October 24, 2021 10:03 AM
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Compact, medium-sized bird of rainforest canopy; often seen at fruiting trees or perched atop bare snags. Male plumage is stunning in good light but can appear blackish otherwise. Feeds on fruit and often commutes long distances between food sources.
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October 24, 2021 9:58 AM
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A key feature of life’s diversity is that some species are common but many more are rare. Nonetheless, at global scales, we do not know what fraction of biodiversity consists of rare species. Here,...
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October 24, 2021 9:53 AM
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Abstract.The exceptional levels of biodiversity found today in the American tropics are the outcome of tens of millions of years of evolution, shaped by the tu...
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October 24, 2021 9:49 AM
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Some scientists fear we are nearing a point of no return in the Amazon rainforest, which exerts power over the carbon cycle like no other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Evidence is mounting that in certain areas, localized iterations of irreversible damage may already be happening.
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July 15, 2021 8:08 AM
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The Amazon has long done its part to balance the global carbon budget, but new evidence suggests the climate scales are tipping in the world’s largest rainforest. Now, according to a study published July 14 in Nature, the Amazon is emitting more carbon than it captures. “The Amazon is a carbon source. No doubt,” Luciana […]
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June 18, 2021 11:18 AM
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In 2015, we formed a partnership with the Maijuna and the NGO, OnePlanet to share the Maijuna story with the world. Through this effort, Maijuna community members began leading conservation and sustainability workshops for participants of our field courses. The impact of these workshops was so powerful that it became clear that we needed to find ways to bring the Maijuna story out of the Amazon and into classrooms around the world. Check out our growing library of classroom-ready resources!
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June 15, 2021 3:57 PM
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June 18, 2021 11:29 AM
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Zonia's Rain Forest by Juana Martinez-Neal. "This book isn’t just about the Peruvian Amazon, it literally is the Peruvian Amazon: Its illustrations were created on paper made from banana bark by women living in the village of Chazuta (…) But what truly makes it stand out is its message of self-determination: These Indigenous people, Martinez-Neal has written, are “not saved but take charge.”"
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June 15, 2021 3:46 PM
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Magazine all about Amazon Rainforest Amazon, the largest and most exuberant rainforest on the planet Source: Tumblr.com The Amazon River and its thousand tributaries make up the largest and most...
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May 27, 2021 4:16 PM
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Red-handed tamarins change their calls to sound more like pied tamarins where the two species share the same patches of forest, and doing so may help the two species understand each other
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November 13, 2021 7:58 AM
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As the U.N. climate conference drew toward a close Friday, Brazil reported the highest level of deforestation for any October dating back to 2007. According to the monthly deforestation tracking system run by Brazil’s national space research institute INPE, 877 square kilometers (339 square miles) of rainforest were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon, a 5% […]
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October 24, 2021 10:16 AM
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As the United Nations Biodiversity Conference wrapped up Friday, critics are once again pointing to the glaring absence of the United States from negotiations to strengthen an international treaty to restore and protect the variety of life on Earth that has been ratified by every...
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October 24, 2021 10:11 AM
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In addition, she has supported the strengthening of local capacity in conservation in the Colombian Amazon. Trigal recently achieved an MPhil in Conservation Leadership from the University of Cambridge and launched herself into the climate change world to advocate for the role of biodiversity to face the climate crisis.
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October 24, 2021 10:03 AM
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Dr. Tom Lovejoy revels in the importance of a connected Amazon rainforest ecosystem and the role Camp 41 serves: embedding human aspiration in nature.
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October 24, 2021 9:54 AM
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The U.K. government is asking world leaders to pledge to halt deforestation by 2030. But Brazil -- home to the Amazon rainforest -- has yet to sign, raising questions about how effective it can be.
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October 24, 2021 9:50 AM
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Abstract There is major concern for the fate of Amazonia over the coming century in the face of anthropogenic climate change. A key area of uncertainty is the scale of rainforest die-back to be exp...
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August 29, 2021 7:59 AM
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Hundreds of wildfires have already scorched the rainforest this year, and the worst is likely yet to come.
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March 21, 2021 11:00 AM
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Like virtually everything in 2020, COVID-19 defined the year for tropical rainforests. Conservation was particularly hard hit in tropical countries.
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June 15, 2021 3:49 PM
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Indigenous communities contain vast amounts of sophisticated knowledge about the plants surrounding them and the medicinal functions that those plants serve. These cultures primarily transmit information orally, generation-to-generation, so if and when these languages die out, the unique knowledge...
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June 15, 2021 3:39 PM
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We know surprisingly little about the millions of animals, plants and birds that live in the Amazon – here’s how we can understand them better.
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June 18, 2021 11:11 AM
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The Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP), a project of the conservation nonprofit Amazon Conservation Association, is at the forefront of the field of high-tech, real-time monitoring. Launched in 2015, MAAP’s innovative application of satellite technology from multiple sources delivers actionable information that provides a transformational tool for governments and local people to rapidly detect deforestation as it is happening. MAAP currently covers 83% of the Amazon in 5 countries: Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia
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April 1, 2021 5:04 PM
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There were bright spots, but the total lost acreage increased by 12 percent over all from the year before, according to new research.
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