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Also known as Garden Tree boa or Common Tree Boa, we saw two of this nocturnal species on our last nightly excursion along the Rio Negro.
Also known as Garden Tree boa or Common Tree Boa, we saw two of this nocturnal species on our last nightly excursion along the Rio Negro.
Granny sumaúma tree (Ceiba pentandra), Malvaceae family, a nine kilometer uphill hike from the Tapajós River communities of Jamaraquá and Maguari, Tapajós National Forest, Pará, Brazil.
Recent New York Times article about these "Grandmother Trees".
www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/opinion/amazon-rainforest-gian...
As we shelter against the coronavirus monster, enjoy a view of a Swiss cheese plant (Monstera adansonii) growing in the wild in a riverbank forest of açaí palms on the Camará River, Marajó Island.
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs, paintings, and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
...build the Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon Rain Forest.....
Brazilians have already suffered from 500 years of slavery, but they still have problems concerning their rights, mostly because they are never heard by those in command here.
To stop this insane project, the brazilian people need the help of the international community to create an impact that can change decision making.
I therefore urge you to join in these campaigns against the continuing destruction og our forests and the people who live in them. Imagine; for each old tree felled, a new slave is born............
By supporting this campaign you also help to stop the slavery of Brazil’s indigenous peoples.
Support this Global Campaign to protect the world's most important forests. Your vote counts, believe me!
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Diga não às alterações no Código Florestal Brasileiro. Assine o manifesto global em português.
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A recent expedition discovered a giant 88m angelim tree (Dinizia excelsa) 300km north of where I photographed these large sumaúma trees (Ceiba pentandra), Rio Jari, northern Pará.
phys.org/news/2019-09-amazon-tallest-tree-taller-previous...
www.newsweek.com/amazon-tallest-tree-discovered-scientist...
g1.globo.com/economia/agronegocios/globo-rural/noticia/20...
I was in the North of Brasil, Belém , the Capital of Pará, the door to the Amazon Forest, taking photos of the sunset, when I saw it...a bird...
He or she is different..and for some minutes I looked to ....walking very very slow...was not worried about anything.
The nature there is marvelous...birds, human, rivers, sunset, everything.
If u know the name, just tell me..thanks
In the heart of the Amazon jungle amongst the clouds of the rainforest stands the enormous gum tree standing taller then all the other trees like the king of the forest. The twilight back lights the tree drinking from the Amazon river.
Rio amazonas nas proximidades de Santarém. Amazon river close to Santarém city, Pará, northern Brazil. Río Amazonas cerca de Santarém, Pará, norte de Brasil.
...we have nothing left........
"The Guarani are committing suicide because we have no land. We don't have any space any more.
In the old days, we were free. Now we are no longer.
So our young people look around them and think there is nothing left, and wonder how they can live.
They sit down and think, they forget, they lose themselves, and then commit suicide............"
- Rosalino Oritz, Guarani-Ñandeva, Brasil
Note: More than 625 Guarani indians have taken their lives since 1981, the youngest just 9 years old.
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"Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life." Yesterday, Alan Simpson delivered a eulogy at the state funeral of former US President George H.W. Bush. Here Alan Simpson is front and center at the Camp 41 research site north of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil on April 3, 1996. The ten-minute eulogy:
...and will you answer them..........?
Brazil's Environmental Protection Agency (IBAMA) chief, Curt Trennepohl, responsible for protecting the environment from destructive projects, recently approved construction of the Belo Monte Dam, a controversial project which would destroy 121,600 acres of the Amazon rainforest and displace nearly 50,000 indigenous people that live in the area. When asked by a reporter if his job was to guard the environment from destructive projects, Trennepohl replied: "No, my job is to minimize the impacts." And as if that were not controversial enough, the IBAMA chief then suggested that indigenous tribes which stand in the way of progress should be dealt with harshly.
Brazil still refuses to allow indian land ownership and absolutely no land in Brazil is owned by tribal peoples.
Please respond to their calling by helping them STOP the Belo Monte Dam Project
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On Christmas Day we lost Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy III, perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson for the importance of conservation of Amazon biodiversity, seen here in his trademark bow tie with United States Embassy Science Counselor Xenia Wilkinson during the visit of President Bill Clinton to Brazil on October 10, 1977.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/12/27/lov....
...so we need to make sure that it does'nt........
Your actions against the Belo Monte Dam Project are important and there are many, both indigenous and non-indigenous people who will be glad for the right decisions to be made. You too!
This week in a landmark vote, Brazilian Federal judge Selene de Almeida has voted for the annulment of the environmental license which authorized the Belo Monte Dam Project. The judge emphasized the need to regulate the prior consultation with indigenous and local communities on projects that affect their territory.
Obviously this is one step closer in the right direction, but it is important to continue signing the protest against this irresponsible project, which not only effects the lives of those directly hit by the Dam, but also the rest of the world. We need continued pressure on the Brazilian authorities. Use the power of your social networking to create an impact. Sign and pass on the petition.
Photo: Carlos Vinicius from CARF's Street Migration Prevention Programme and Werá from the Guarani indian reserve Krukutu.
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