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The Amazon has long been recognized as an important repository of biodiversity and natural resources. Not only for local peoples and indigenous communities, but also for the rest of the world. Unfortunately, as forests continue to disappear and the effects climate change become more of a daily reality, we run the risk of losing this great natural treasure for future generations. 
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Researchers find that tropical forest mammals play an important role in keeping carbon-absorbing Amazon forests healthy.
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Flexible leg tips allow ants to hold and cut leaves with precision
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Leafcutter ants...just when you thought you had the whole story!
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After the success of the creation of Sierra del Divisor National Park, there is hope that new parks will help conservation efforts in Peru's Amazon region. Yaguas National Park is next on line.
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Wonderful video footage of the ACTSPeru Canopy walkway and surrounding rainforest shot by Trans-Americas Journey. The ACTSPeru walkway and field station are managed by Explorama Lodges. Many visitors from their Ceiba Tops Lodge visit the walkway for a day (thus the name of this video). Participants in Amazon Rainforest Workshops and/or ACTSPeru field studies GET TO SPEND SEVERAL DAYS - EVEN WEEKS at this site. MAGIC is an understatement! (Note: disregard the accompanying audio, pretty sure its not from the Amazon, but the video is fantastic!!)
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You probably think of spiders as solitary creatures, sitting alone in their webs like a surly miser. But the arachnophobes among you won’t be pleased to learn there’s actually a species of spider that enjoys creeping around with tens of thousands of comrades.
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RT @mongabay: RT @goldmanprize: Was 2015 a good year for rainforests?
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When satellite imagery of the Brazilian rainforest shows lush, dense forests, most of us likely expect that those trees are packed with wildlife. But what if what we are actually seeing is an empty forest?
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Here's the thing: Nature sees carbon as a building block. That's important as we look to take carbon out of the air. Plants use carbon to make sugars, starches, and cellulose. Corals use carbon to build reefs, and mollusks use carbon to manufacture their shells. We can do that too.
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Brazil says it has greatly reduced the rate of deforestation. That may be true, critics say, but they argue such figures are misleading because so much of the Amazon has already been degraded.
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Peru has a new, 3.3-million-acre national park in the Amazonian rain forest, thanks to an international effort in which Field Museum scientists played a key role, museum officials said Tuesday.
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Continued deforestation of the Amazon rainforest could diminish the amount of rain that falls in the Amazon River basin, finds a new study.
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For generations, the rubber tappers of the Amazon have gone about their business in a way that preserves the rain forest. Today, they are increasingly in conflict with criminal logging gangs.
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if all planned dams go ahead, only three Amazon tributaries will remain free-flowing in the basin.
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A great overview of a serious global issue.
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Whoohooo! Just got featured in the BirdsEye newsletter. Thanks BirdsEye for helping our Educator Academy Participants make the most of their Amazon field experience! More about BirdsEye http://www.birdseyebirding.com/ More about the Educator Academy in the Amazon: http://www.amazonworkshops.com/educator-academy.html
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For the past 50 years, the number of wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) that breed in the United States has decreased more than 60 percent. However, …
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If you've ever heard the ethereal song of a wood thrush, you'll never be the same. When you consider they journey thousands of miles between their two homes - tropical rainforests in Central and South America and the deciduous forests of NE United States and Canda, they become even more special. Their decline has long been blamed on deforestation in the tropics - not so says the Smithsonian. Its happening in our own backyard in the USA.
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The Amazon has long been recognized as an important repository of biodiversity and natural resources. Not only for local peoples and indigenous communities, … Read More
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"The Amazon rainforest plays an important role in the southern hemisphere by transpiring moisture that is transported by clouds to many places that need precipitation," said Jose D. Fuentes, professor of meteorology, Penn State. "However, there's a big gap in our knowledge of the underlying processes that influence the formation of clouds."
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.@mongabay nous éclaire sur ce qui attend les forêts tropicales en 2016 https://t.co/3vvxxpoSCH
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Russell A. Mittermeier, a primatologist who serves as Executive Vice Chair at Conservation International and Chair of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group, praises the climate agreement signed in Paris for its inclusion of forests, but notes that...
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This article is adapted from the Fall 2015 print edition of Americas Quarterly. To subscribe, please click here With each passing day, we lose more of our world's forests to deforestation and degradation. But the good news is that in recent years, we've become considerably more sophisticated in how we try to protect the Amazon and other vulnerable areas.
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The poor management of coffee and cocoa is one of the principal drivers of deforestation in Peru.
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Story by Rhett A. Butler originally published November 7, 2015 on Mongabay.com After more than a decade of discussion and … Read More The post Peru creates ‘Yellowstone of the Amazon’: 3.3M acre reserve home to uncontacted tribes, endangered...
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Out on November 12, the issue looks at how to balance conservation and economic growth in the world's largest rain forest. The latest issue of Americas Quarterly, released on November 12, explores how to balance conservation and economic growth in the world's largest rain forest. Read the table of contents below. Check out the AQ app and subscribe now to take advantage of our special discount.
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A great collection of articles about the current state of the Amazon - Nov. 12, 2015: Americas Quarterly
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You were taught in school that the rain forest is like the lungs of our planet. It’s not that simple.
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WATCH! This is a fantastic overview of what's going on with Amazon deforestation. Thanks NPR!
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