Health in the Roque Community
By Rodrigo Carmino When it comes to health, we’re directly discussing life – human lives or animal lives, both are extremely important. The Roque Community has approximately 700 people: men, women, elderly, youngsters and children who are hostages of a single health center and an agent who works there, all at the mercy of the […]
Get to know the Fundo de Repartição de Benefícios do Médio Juruá
By Raqueline Nery The Fundo de Repartição de Benefícios do Médio Juruá (FRBMJ) has been active in the Médio Juruá region since 2013 indirectly through financial donations via Social and Environmental Projects, implemented by institutions in the region, and only in 2017 was formally created in accordance with the Law of Biodiversity, the law 13.123 […]
Telehealth Stations in Carauari
By Tuila Tachikawa In April, five telehealth stations were installed in Carauari (AM) to serve the rural communities of the municipality. The proposal is the result of an initiative by Fundação Amazônia Sustentável (FAS) and is financed by JBS company. At first, presentations about the telehealth program were elaborated by FAS and JBS. The associations […]
Vaccination Campaign in Carauari
By Tuila Tachikawa The state of Amazonas has been hit by the pandemic in an extreme way, becoming the worst affected region in Brazil, and continues to suffer intensely from the public health crisis generated by the coronavirus pandemic. Municipalities in the interior of the state, which generally lack intensive care beds, are now fighting […]
Instituto Juruá takes part in a training course on Safeguarding Protection
By Clara Machado The Instituto Juruá team took part in a training course on Safeguarding Protection offered by Synchronicity Earth. Safeguarding Protection is a set of rules established by non-profit organizations to ensure that risks to communities where they operate are avoided or minimized. We know that the entry of researchers, NGO workers and foreigners […]
Climate Change, with André Junqueira
Por Clara Machado Climate change affects biodiverse areas across the planet, and scientists predict a drastic reduction in populations of native species crucial to the agroextractive economy. In the Amazon, the vulnerability of ecosystems to climate change extends to rural communities, which depend economically on the management of natural resources. We invited Dr. André Junqueira […]
Turtle conservation that benefits migratory birds
By Clara Machado Freshwater turtles have been a popular resource in Amazonian cuisine since before Europeans arrived on the South American continent. Due to high exploitation over the last century in the form of hunting and the collection of eggs, mainly to serve as food, turtles have experienced drastic reductions in their populations. Community-based conservation […]
Get to know the cooperative responsible for the successful commercialization of vegetable oils in Juruá
By Andressa Scabin The Mixed Cooperative of Sustainable Development and Solidarity Economy of the Mid-Juruá (CODAEMJ) was created in 2003, and represents an important link in the oil seed production chain in the Mid-Juruá. This cooperative is responsible for carrying out the collection of raw materials from the forest, as well as the processing, production […]
Emilie Snethlage Expedition: women ornithologists on the Juruá River
By Glaucia Del-Rio The bird collection at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science (LSU) is one of the most important in the world when it comes to birds from the Neotropical region (South America and Central America). Knowing this, around 2014, I made every possible effort to become a doctoral student at the […]
8M – Exchanging flowers for responsibility
By Daniela França I am a scientist, environmental consultant, scientific disseminator, activist and mother. I earned this space to talk about motherhood and science in a country where a man hits with one hand, and yet with the other offers flowers in the Month of Women. Maybe I didn’t win the space, but I did […]