Pesquisadores da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) afirmam que o Aquífero Alter do Chão, que se estende pelo Amazonas, Pará e Amapá, é dono da maior reserva de água doce subterrânea do planeta.
In the Maguari community, located within the Tapajós National Forest in the west of the state of Pará, native peoples earn a living as guides for tourists from all over the world who come to see the thousand year old tree and witness the value of a standing forest.
According to the government, 54 of its 72 million hectares will be protected. However, there are still some legal loopholes and threats to the Amazon Rainforest.
A land regulation program launched last year by Lula’s government has been the target of controversies involving an increase in illegal occupation of Amazon Rainforest estates.
The government of Ecuador turns back and accepts a partnership with the UN to create a fund against the exploitation of oil in one of the most preserved regions in the Amazon Rainforest.
After years of forest fires ravaging vast regions, official and environmental agencies begin to take action to avert the worst during the dry season in the Bolivian forest.
Manatee offspring taken to the Amazonian National Research Institute, in Manaus, arrived undernourished and running a great risk of not surviving. One hypothesis is that adults are hunted and their offspring are left behind. Use the interactive map to see where these mammals were found.
Five years ago, the tropical forest not only suffered the stiffest drought ever heard of but new research shows that a major storm felled thousands of trees, a sample of just how vulnerable the Amazon Rainforest is becoming to extreme climatic phenomena.
From being cut down for firewood and garden fences to serving as pasture ground for goats, mangroves have never really been seen as a legitimate member of the forest family. Now,Guyana’s mangrove forest takes on a new look
The new term of the agreement that forbids the planting of soy in deforested areas in the Amazon Rainforest will be jointly monitored in partnership with Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
The world’s largest protected area, the Grão-Pará Ecological Station continues to be threatened by the Rio Tinto mining company’s interests in exploiting bauxite in its interior. A Work Group defines by September whether the protected area will be reduced.
In a visit to the National Park we accompanied a group of students that live in the Amazon Rainforest but that had never had the opportunity to learn about its natural environment.
In the heart of the forest, Lula’s government announced an ambitious plan to produce the valuable “dendê”. The program promises to generate jobs, but specialists see in this the beginning of a new occupation cycle of Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest.
Paragominas, a township known as one of the main villains of deforesting in the Brazilian Amazon region, shows that the secret to reduce this practice lies in local partnerships.
After years of forest fires ravaging vast regions, official and environmental agencies begin to take action to avert the worst during the dry season in the Bolivian forest.
Manatee offspring taken to the Amazonian National Research Institute, in Manaus, arrived undernourished and running a great risk of not surviving. One hypothesis is that adults are hunted and their offspring are left behind. Use the interactive map to see where these mammals were found.
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