One of the major goals of the project is to simply better understand the forest. It includes fieldwork, laboratory studies and modeling research by undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral scientists.
Tag: biodiversity
Extractivists from Unini Reserve, in Brazil, produced a record chestnut safra
The families of the reserve produced an unprecedented crop of 15 tons of raw nuts, moving near $ 47.000 into the local economy. The annual average was 11 tons of nuts.
G1: Primate found only in the Brazilian Amazon may disappear, say researchers
Noncompliance with laws and urbanization cause deaths, say environmentalists. Species is found in three cities; at least 10 die each year.
Brasil.gov.br: The Amazon Day is commemorated in this September 5
In celebration of the Amazon Day, the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA, in Portuguese) opened the photographic exhibition: “Amazon: Landscapes, Flora and Fauna”, and in Brasilia the exhibition “Amazon National Parks: legacy of Brazilian”.
Scientists uncover five new species of ‘toupee’ monkeys in the Amazon
The director and co-founder of the Global Conservation Institute, spent ten years studying the saki monkey family. This monkeys, like all South American primates, suffer from the effects of region-wide habitat disturbances.
Global Ideas: Exploring remote corners of the Amazon
Film follows researchers as they aim is to find new species and underline the biological significance of the region.
CBS News: Amazon’s biggest fish faces threat of extinction
A recent survey of fishing communities in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, found that the arapaima is already extinct in some parts of the Amazon basin. In other parts of the Amazon, its numbers are rapidly dwindling.
Amazônia Real: New primate species discovered in the Amazon
In the 21st century, there is much to explore and discover in the Amazon. Recently, it was discovered a new species of primates on an expedition in the Rainforest: The Araca Uakari.
A Crítica: Ornamental fish of rare beauty has been exported illegally in the Amazon
The Hypancistrus zebra has been exported illegally by a route passing through the state of Amazonas.
El Deber: The new dwarf tapir can be a Bolivian “flagship species”
The new species called Tapirus kabomani, the dwarf tapir, is known in Bolivia as ‘black tapir’, ‘small tapir’ or ‘tapir donkey legs’.