Watch images of stunning insects and arthropods found during the expedition to the Amazon crossed by bicycle.
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Some Amazon trees are more than 8 million years old
Some Amazon rainforest tree species are more than eight million years old found a genetic study published in the December 2012 edition of Ecology and Evolution.
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Butterflies of the Amazon rainforest in photos
See the butterflies of different colors, designs and sizes, all photographed during Cicloamazonia Expedition, a bicycle journey on the Transamazonic road.
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Terra: Indigenous leader Raoni asks UN help against infrastructure in Amazon
Raoni appealed to United Nations and international community to press the Brazilian government to review development projects in the Amazon and preserve the rights of indigenous.
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Loreto: University students liberated about 400 turtles
On Nanay riverwalk, Iquitos, a group of students from the National University of the Peruvian Amazon released about 400 baby turtles Podocnemis unifilis, born in captivity.
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Invasions in indigenous lands threaten sustainable fisheries project
Incursions of fishing boats attracted by increasing numbers of fish threatens pirarucú management of Paumari indigenous in Purus River.
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Unique program to leave oil beneath Amazonian paradise raises $300 million
The Yasuni-ITT Initiative has raised 8 percent of the total amount needed to fully fund the idea.
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Papallacta, strategic place
Despite being a strategic place to contain reserves of drinking water for Quito, Papallacta does not have a adequate system for wastewater treatment.
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The encounter of Papallacta and Quijos rivers
The Papallacta River waters (left) supply the great river Quijos, named for ancient pre-Columbian inhabitants of the region.