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.

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.

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.

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.

A model devised in 2006 allows the bidding of vast public areas for exploitation with forest management. Preliminary results show a reduction of illegal activities on the part of lumber companies in the Amazon.

Ensconced in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, the world’s largest outdoor iron mine has not created the expected amount wealth or quality of life. While the trail of destruction continues to grow around it, the company that owns the mining rights contributes towards research of endemic species in the region.

There is a platform that intends to integrate systems of traceability in Brazilian red meat, revealing with genetic precision if the meat on the store shelf is a result of environmental crimes.

More than just the end of a tradition, the decline of rubber extraction represents the collapse of the model envisioned by Brazil of defending the possibility of preserving the forest while affording respectable living conditions for those who inhabit it.