Instituto Juruá strengthens partnership with Proyecto VASI in Pucallpa, Peru
Proyecto VASI intends to strengthen its partnership with Instituto Juruá to establish the management of arapaima. By Andressa Scabin On March 1st and 2nd this year, the directors of Instituto Juruá, João Vitor Campos e Silva and Andressa Bárbara Scabin, were in Pucallpa, a city in Peru, with the aim of strengthening an alliance that […]
Instituto Juruá is a signatory of the open letter Ato pela Terra (Act for the Earth)
The protest gathered people in Brasilia, on March 9, to demand the end of the “Destruction Package”, a set of environmental-related bills. By Letícia Araújo Instituto Juruá was one of the 238 organizations signatories of the open letter produced by the organizers of the Ato pela Terra (Act for the Earth), which took place on […]
Traditional knowledge as an ally in monitoring the Amazon fauna
Published article demonstrates that the local knowledge of Amazonian residents can be more efficient than classical scientific methods to measure the abundance of wild animals. By Clara Machado The Amazon rainforest is home to one of the greatest biodiversity in the world. However, human activities such as deforestation, mining and global warming threaten wildlife in […]
Dreamland
By Maria Cunha Mid-Juruá, a land of dreams, a land of fights, a land of storiesLived stories, painful stories, stories linked to a great conquestsMid-Juruá of the ones who look for the best, who dare, who turn their dreams into a perfect realityHere soil is fertile, every germinated seed comes to lifeFull of positivity, fruits […]
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 […]
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 […]
Meet The Young Protagonists
By Clara Machado How are new leaderships formed in social movements? At Mid-Juruá, the Young Protagonists project is a grand school for new leadership qualification. Before the project was established in the region, the elderly saw the youth as uninterested and irresponsible. There was a serious concern about passing on the social movement and the […]
About Meritocracy
By João Vitor Campos-Silva Seu Gracias is the greatest arapaima fisherman in the region. His naturalistic vein is as big as the great swamp that floods all land that meets the eye. His dream? He wanted to be a biologist, now see… It was a rainy day when he vented to me on our boat, […]
From: Amazonia
To: Márcio Ayres
Hello Márcio, Brazilian biologist and naturalist, a very important figure when it comes to conservation, even more so when conservation also includes looking after the other. The care towards the communities, the traditions, the stories, towards me. I would like to recall a little about your trajectory: passionate about primates, you did your master’s degree […]