A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the ...

Pará is Brazil’s biggest grower of cacao, which grows in the shade of native trees ... to luxury cruises down the Amazon—to lure high-paying visitors to the forest with minimum impact.

So the jaguars take to the trees. Living up in the ... of Manaus with a biologist friend. “The Amazon is a magnet,” he says. Passionate about the forest, he sought out any opportunity to ...

As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The BBC’s article has pictures of the clear-cut forest floor where logs have ...

Claudio Verequete says the trees he harvested açaí from have ... provide an opportunity to focus on the needs of the Amazon, show the forest to the world, and present what the federal government ...

The Rio Iriri Extractive Reserve is a publicly owned piece of the forest where the ... Brazil who moved to the Amazon in the 1850s to exploit latex from rubber trees. Today, their economy is ...

it moves deeper into the Amazon forest, it then rains again… so it’s a positive feedback to keep an area moist and wet.” But, the loss of the trees can lead to intense localised weather ...

One morning in 2024, Armando Schlindwein found an orange-bearded monkey on the roof of his farmhouse on the edge of the ...

the Amazon. Forest management consists of removing a small number of trees whose species are valued in the market. After that, the area can only be explored again in 30 to 40 years, following its ...

The Atlantic Forest, second in biodiversity only to the Amazon, with nearly as many tree ... placing the seedlings roughly ten feet apart, 2,000 trees per hectare. Fig species, long-leafed ...