Can Private Nature Reserves Help Save the Amazon Rainforest?
Private nature reserves can protect Amazon forest, but only when legal security, local participation, financing, monitoring, and connectivity work together.
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Private nature reserves can protect Amazon forest, but only when legal security, local participation, financing, monitoring, and connectivity work together.
See how plants, herbivores, seed dispersers, and predators connect in the Amazon food web, and why deforestation breaks those links.
Meet 8 extraordinary animals of the Amazon River, from pink dolphins and giant otters to electric eels and mata mata turtles. Discover their surprising adaptations and the conservation work keeping them alive.
The Huaorani people of the western Amazon possess centuries of forest knowledge. Learn about their territory, land rights victory, and role as rainforest guardians.
The bullet ant delivers the most painful insect sting on Earth. Discover what makes its venom so potent, its role in Sateré-Mawé ritual, and why it depends on intact rainforest.
Costa Rica cloud forests are among the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth. Learn what makes these misty high-elevation forests unique and why their protection matters.
At the click of a button you can save a personal piece of the Amazon rainforest and ensure it stays safe from deforestation. You will immediately receive access to your piece of rainforest and will be able to track it to the square meter.
From a blob-headed catfish to a turquoise poison dart frog, meet five species recently discovered in Peru’s Alto Mayo region and learn why each one matters for conservation.
Scarlet macaws visit Peru’s clay licks for minerals, social cues, and survival. Learn how Tambopata’s riverbanks reveal rainforest ecology in action.
Coffee, cocoa, palm oil, beef, soy, paper, and cosmetics can be tied to rainforest loss. Learn how everyday choices connect to deforestation.
Lowland tapirs move seeds through Amazon forests, helping regeneration after disturbance. Learn why this Vulnerable mammal matters for rainforest recovery.
Indigenous women across the Amazon protect forests through land rights, traditional knowledge, agroforestry, monitoring, and cultural leadership.
Discover the green anaconda, the world’s heaviest snake: its Amazon habitat, hunting, breeding ball behavior, size, diet, and the conservation threats it faces.
Discover the Andean Cock-of-the-rock, Peru’s national bird: its brilliant orange plumage, lekking displays, cloud forest habitat, and why its protection matters.
Discover the Amazon parrot genus: 30 species of intelligent, green-plumed birds of the tropical Americas, their habitat, threats, and why forest protection matters.
In the dense heart of the Peruvian Amazon, sunlight trickles down and an ancient giant rises to meet it. The
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