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Heading to the Amazon rainforest in Peru to explore & research biodiversity with the Morpho Institute. 🦋 Erika Stafne, ARIE 2026 
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LIMITED EDITION 2026 FIELD MERCH! ONLY AVAILABLE UNTIL AUG. 31! 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? Get yours now!
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A field station is usually a working place. It may have bunkrooms, trails, a generator, stored specimens, weathered notebooks, drying boots, a small lab, and staff who know when the road floods...Its value is easy to miss because it is often measured through other things: papers, students, monitoring plots, visiting researchers, restored forest, fewer snares, or a longer record of what changed.
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[Classroom Resource] The activities in this toolkit from WWF helps students understand of the importance of nature and how all living things are connected. (grades 6-8)
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We watch teachers step off the boat in the Amazon, a little nervous, and ten days later step back on having rebuilt what they thought teaching science could look like. That shift follows them home, into their classrooms, for the rest of their careers. Our scholarship fund exists to make sure that cost is not a barrier. If that matters to you, GIVE TODAY!
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Imagine professional development that is a life-changing inquiry adventure. The Educator Academy in the Amazon is a wide-ranging journey through rainforest ecology, culture, and conservation, where inquiry-based learning isn't a strategy. It's the experience itself. Click to learn more!
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A new study reveals the elusive short-eared dog, a mysterious Amazonian canid, is thriving in the forests of Bolivia and Peru, contrary to previous fears of its rarity.
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Discover Brazil nuts, an Amazon exclusive, prized for selenium and their role in rainforest conservation and vital ecological processes.
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Scientists have discovered a new Amazonian spider with an astonishing disguise: it looks like a parasitic fungus. The species, Taczanowskia waska, mimics both the appearance and behavior of the fungus, helping it stay hidden from predators and potentially catch prey more easily.
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In an unprecedented study conducted during the record-breaking 2023–2024 El Niño event, scientists uncovered groundbreaking insights into how the Amazon rainforest responds chemically to severe environmental stress.
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Researchers have recorded microplastics in frog tadpoles and their pond habitats in the wild in the Amazon for the first time, according to a new study. This confirms widespread microplastic contamination in the Amazon Rainforest, the researchers say. Previous studies from the region have found microplastic contamination in fish, invertebrates, soil and water samples. […]
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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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Scientists are recording the sounds of the Amazon in a bid to better protect it.
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We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’.But forests don’t work like aeroplanes or human hearts...Approaches to conservation have long been shaped by debates about whether nature has a purpose or whether we are projecting our own aims on to it. Behind every attempt to justify new protections lies an implicit answer to the question: what is the environment for?
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Awe, Wonder, and Pachamama - The impact of the Amazon on Yamile - a 2026 Educator Academy in the Amazon Explorer. Wondering what participants have to say about our Amazon PD courses? Take a listen and then get more info on how to join us at www.morphoinstitute.org
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For ten days in the Napo-Sucusari Biological Reserve in northeastern Peru, you work as a field scientist alongside Morpho's team of tropical ecologists and conservation researchers. You will test hypotheses, collect original data, and contribute directly to our understanding of biodiversity in one of the most complex ecosystems on Earth. Click to learn more!
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Gold mining continues to increase in the Peruvian Amazon. Following the initial success of the major multisectoral government intervention Operation Mercury in southern Peru in early 2019 (MAAP #104, MAAP #121, MAAP #130), the illegal mining activity rebounded during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the government withdrew from the area (Vadillo, 2022). The current increase, directly linked […]
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The Amazon biome, stretching over a vast area across nine countries in northern South America, is renowned for its extreme diversity (biological and cultural) and its abundant water resources. Indeed, the major features of the Amazon are linked by interconnected water flows, both on land and in the air (Beveridge et al. 2024). The natural […]
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Nectar-loving tree frog likely moves pollen from flower to flower
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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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RESEARCH: This study explores how Adaptive Co-management—a collaborative and flexible approach to conservation—works in practice within the Maijuna-Kichwa Regional Conservation Area (MKRCA) in the Peruvian Amazon.
