Instituto Juruá’s Forest Scientists Program promotes field course in Conservation Biology
What if the classroom was in the middle of the Amazon rainforest? By Andressa Scabin e Júlio Cesar Voltolini What if the class included feeling the forest floor beneath your feet? Coun flowers and fruits around? Estimate the height of the treetops? Count insects flying and jumping as we pass them? Assess how light and […]
Knowledge meeting between managers, monitors and researchers discuss the conservation and the management of species in Mid Juruá
The meeting held by IPÊ was attended by approximately 70 people and discussed data from species monitoring to propose new interpretations and actions for their conservation. Por Bernardo Oliveira The Mid- Juruá region can be considered a model for the Amazon. There are many projects that make the place something different from what is seen […]
Instituto Juruá holds its first expedition in Mid Juruá since the beginning of the pandemic
The expedition aimed to execute the projects accumulated in two years of pandemic By Bernardo Oliveira Two years in two months. This was the motto of the Juruá Institute’s expedition along the Juruá River, which began in September and lasted until mid-December 2021. In fact, it took almost four months of work in riverside communities […]
Ecojewels Workshop for women held in the Mid-Juruá
By Raqueline Nery and Quilvilene Cunha The management of Arapaima has been a reality in the Mid-Juruá region since 2011, the result of involvement, persistence and a lot of willpower of the community, grassroots organizations, and partner institutions. It was observed that the Arapaima’s viscera and scales were randomly discarded at the edge of the […]
Forest Olympics brings together young people from 42 communities in the Middle Juruá region for moments of integration through sport
Children and teenagers competed and played in various sports By Bernardo Oliveira Unity is a highly valued concept among riverside communities in the Mid-Juruá region. In general, community members from different families come together to make flour, build houses, and manage pirarucu. And it was the possibility of promoting the union between riverside youths from […]
AAEPPRI releases over 400,000 turtle hatchlings into Juruá River
By Clara Machado and Nerinho Santos AAEPPRI (Associação Ambiental, Extrativistas, Pescadores E Produtores Rurais De Itamarati) released turtle hatchlings that had spawned along Juruá River’s beaches on November, 2021. At the Walterburi’s board, in Itamarati (AM), 400,000 hatchlings, among turtles, tracajás and iaçás were released to safety, thanks to the community monitorarion that protects the […]
Are Protected Areas Where People Are Happy?
By Clara Machado Instituto Juruá’s researchers visited more than 100 communities along Juruá River’s two thousand kilometers so they could answer a question. Where do people live better: inside or outside protected areas? The study, led by João Campos-Silva, analysed the main services that exist in rural communities (such as electricity, sanitation, and access to […]
Get to know AAEPPRI: Environmental Association, Extractivists, Fishermen, and Rural Producers from Itamarati
By Bernardo Oliveira The fight for public policies that serve the population of Mid-Juruá is an old one. It began before the creation of RDS Uacari and RESEX Mid-Juruá nature reserves, when residents of local communities vocalized and united themselves in organizations that established, in addition to the creation of reserves, the possibility of enabling […]
Communication Channels in Mid Juruá: an area with limited internet access
By Clara Machado Limited internet access is a reality for most rural communities in the Amazon, and in Mid-Juruá is no different. Despite this difficulty, Instituto Juruá held two remote courses throughout 2021 with the residents of Reserva Extrativista of Mid-Juruá and Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Uacari. The first course, on “Socioenvironmental Educommunication Practices Applied […]
Article developed by Instituto Juruá, in partnership with SITAWI, proposes a rich and sustainable future for the Amazon
The article surveys governance models, ecosystem and environmental services, natural capital in the Amazon, and shares successful experiences of an extractive-based bioeconomy in the Middle Juruá, AM. By Bernardo Oliveira and Felipe Jacob Pires The word future carries with it the weight of doubt. The future is, by nature, uncertain. But we can be sure […]