Peru and Germany look towards accords to protect Amazon rainforest
Peru and Germany are working together to prevent increased loss of Amazon rainforest, especially that which threatens the existing indigenous…
World’s first indigenous REDD+ program suspended due to illegal mining
In 2009, the Paiter-Suruí of Brazil became the first indigenous group in the world to design and implement a major…
Amazon Deforestation in Brazil: What Does It Mean When There’s No Change?
I was recently invited by the editors of the journal Tropical Conservation Science to write an update of a 2013 article…
BBC reports on how illegal mining destroys the Peruvian Amazon
Multispectral cameras, drones, sensors, high resolution filming and a unique satellite in South America. The Air Force and the Peruvian…
Local entrepreneurship, key in the sustainable development of the Amazon
The sustainable development of the green lung of the planet ie of the Amazon is substantial for the conservation of…
Tree species distributions in Amazonia modeled
The rainforests in lowland Peruvian Amazonia have a relatively uniform appearance over large areas. Credit: Hanna Tuomisto Researchers from the…
The clues left about what it was like to live in the Amazon
Archeology has revealed that the Amazon was a region with millions of inhabitants before the arrival of the Europeans, who…
Seventeen years of struggle for the creation of the Rio Branco-Jauaperi Extractive Reserve
On the Environment day, June 5, the government published a decree creating the Rio Branco-Jauaperi Extractive Reserve. The publication in…
#WeAreAmazon: influencers mobilize for the Amazon
To promote the Amazon Day, which takes place on Wednesday, September 5, WWF-Brazil promotes a digital campaign with the participation…
The mysterious 500-year-old indigenous “cemetery” found in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon
New funerary urns of indigenous peoples who inhabited the Amazon more than five centuries ago were recently found in the…