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When I go out at night into the rainforest to search for katydids I don’t like to have any company. Not that I am particularly antisocial, but tracking skittish and cryptic animals is an activity t... 
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Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, and Robert Redford all join forces to give nature a voice. Watch the films and take...
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How To Shoot An Amazonian Blowgun
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This post just in from one of our 2014 Amazon Workshop participants, Laurel Allen from the California Academy of Sciences!
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Our research team returned to the Peruvian Amazon in 2013 to monitor felid movement and activity for a project on primate predator-prey interactions led by D...
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One of the prettiest birds in the Amazon - the Paradise Tanager pic.twitter.com/PAcKxOX0i9
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Weekend Wildlife: Almost time, but this was too good to save! Check out this beauty!
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On eve of Brazil presidential election, is the Amazon at stake? (+video) - Christian Science Monitor
Most Brazilian voters are focused on what incumbent President Rousseff and top competitor Silva have to say about the sluggish economy. Their prescriptions will have a major impact on environmental protection in the Amazon rainforest.
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As Peru relaxes environmental safeguards, a prominent ecologist explains why he resigned from his government post.
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From the bayou to the Amazon: New Orleans native Mark Plotkin has dedicated his life to rainforest conservation...
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Think all the great explorers only live in the pages of musty books? Thank Again!
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Trees offer a way to soak up carbon until we get serious about finding long-term solutions.
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My first night of a 4 month field season, I settled down to sleep listening to the buzzes and squawks of the jungle night, mosquito net carefully tucked in all around my mattress. After a while, in...
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Ever wonder what it is like to be a jungle scientist in the Amazon? Check out this blog post by field biologist, Claire Salisbury. All of this will sound very familiar to participants of our Amazon Workshops programs - except for that thing about the JAGUAR!!
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What role do rainforests play in our daily lives? More than you might realize. Consider how different, and poorer, life would be without these seven everyday items. Continue reading →
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What would life be like without these foods?
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Citizen scientists in Brazil will use a new IBM data portal and mobile app to track biodiversity in the Amazon.
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Although rainforests cover only 2 percent of the earth’s surface, these ecological powerhouses are critical to pretty much every aspect of the planet’s health you can imagine—including our very existence.
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Show you care. Share. Share. Share.
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Peccaries are like pigs: They wallow. In the Peruvian rain forest, those mud puddles are wildlife magnets.
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Amazonia's forests absorb destructive greenhouse gases, provide essential water, foods and medicines, and supports important livelihoods. It’s up to all of us to protect this remarkable global treasure before we lose much of it … forever.
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Excellent intro/overview of why the Amazon is important to ALL of us!
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October 1, 2014 11:37 AM
A great overview of the Amazon and its global importance. Reliable content from a reliable source: Conservation International
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Find out more about the products you use in the Shop the Frog database
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More helpful hints from the folks at @rainforestalliance!
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How Our Weekly Grocery Shopping Trips Could Be Killing the Amazon Care2.com Obviously, the wildlife that are killed or displaced during ground clearing suffer, but in addition to that the report estimates that the illegal conversion of tropical...
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Amazonian birds under threat from road expansion Imperial College London Reporting in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists examined the links between density of road networks in Pará, which is a Brazilian state found in the...
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Species across land, rivers and seas decimated as humans kill for food in unsustainable numbers and destroy habitats
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This kind of puts things in perspective...according to report "...today’s average global rate of consumption would need 1.5 planet Earths to sustain it. But four planets would be required to sustain US levels of consumption, or 2.5 Earths to match UK consumption levels". At what point do we say enough and start thinking about the future of our children and grandchildren?
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The Amazon River is like a heart, pumping water from the seas through it, and up into the atmosphere through 600 billion trees, which act like lungs. Clouds form, rain falls and the forest thrives. In a lyrical talk, Antonio Donato Nobre talks us through the interconnected systems of this region, and how they provide environmental services to the entire world. A parable for the extraordinary symphony that is nature.
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Amazon Turtles 'Talk' to Their Tots
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Turtles for your Tuesday!
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In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World’s Rarest Amphibians. A new book by Robin Moore. About the Author SYNOPSIS On August 9, 2010, 33 teams from 21 countries were deployed to search for frogs, salamanders and caecilians not seen in decades. Species on the wish list included the...
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Amazon Book Club? Here's a title to add to the list!
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Children of the Amazon follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed fifteen years ago.
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Tropical deforestation is often illegal, but it’s driven by the market for these in-demand agricultural products.
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Meet the South American Goliath birdeater spider(Therphosa blondi) from the Amazon! The largest spider in the world with a leg span of nearly a foot (30 cm). But do they really eat birds? Read on!