Amazon Basin: What It Is and Why It Matters
Learn what the Amazon Basin is, why its 7 million square kilometers matter for climate, biodiversity, and people, and what threats it faces today.
Learn what the Amazon Basin is, why its 7 million square kilometers matter for climate, biodiversity, and people, and what threats it faces today.
Meet the golden poison frog, a tiny Colombian amphibian whose batrachotoxin, bright warning colors, and fragile rainforest habitat make it one of nature’s most remarkable species.
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.
