The Amazon loses one of the greatest connoisseurs of its flora
By Andressa Scabin Paulo Apóstolo Costa Lima Assunção, known by his friends as “Paulo Boca” was born in 1956 in Marabá, Pará. During the 1980s, the young Paulo worked as a gold miner in Serra Pelada, before he gathered his savings and took a boat to Manaus. His idea was to buy goods in the […]
Forest management: as old as the time when humans and animals thrived
By André Antunes Within the discipline of Conservation Biology, ‘management’ is considered as a broad set of efforts and processes, involving the application of scientific tools in order to establish new perspectives in relation to the environment, both on a local and global scale. It is a relatively new word, used mainly from the 19th […]
Conservation of terrestrial fauna, with Whaldener Endo
By Clara Machado Whaldener Endo, known to his friends as Óleo, is a biologist, with a PhD in Ecology and Natural Resource Management from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). He is currently an adjunct professor at the Federal University of Roraima. His academic trajectory focuses on Ecology and Conservation of terrestrial vertebrates, including […]
What does the curassow-piurí feed on?
By Clara Machado The wattled curassow (Crax globulosa) is a bird well known by people living along some rivers of the Amazon, where this species inhabits the flooded várzea forests. Like other birds in this family, the wattled curassow is very sensitive to hunting and deforestation, and natural populations have suffered such great losses in […]
About loneliness
By João Campos-Silva I was thinking a lot about the effect of loneliness on the human condition. I had just completed 160 days living on the boat and, even with the three co-workers on the journey, sometimes a feeling of emptiness ran through my veins. I thought I was facing such loneliness. In the […]
Manuel Siqueira, president of ASPROC
By Clara Machado ASPROC (Associação de Produtores Rurais de Carauari) was the first organization created in the middle Juruá. With 27 years of experience, it operates in the organization and commercialization of rural production from the region’s agrextractivist communities, in addition to the fundamental role of the struggle for territory and the creation of conservation […]
The capacity of different forests to store carbon
By Clara Machado Would individuals of the same tree species growing in seasonally flooded várzea forest, or unflooded terra firme forest have the same capacity to store carbon as woody biomass? This was a question that PhD student Yennie Bredin with colleagues from Instituto Juruá asked themselves in their publication “Forest type affects the capacity […]
The Mid-Juruá region, by Carlos Peres
By Clara Machado Born in Belém and based in England, Carlos Peres has been studying, for the last 30 years, wildlife community ecology in Amazonian forests, the population ecology of key tropical forest resource populations, and biological criteria for designing large nature reserves. He currently co-directs four ecology and conservation research programs in Amazonian forests […]
With pirarucu management, women generate unprecedented income in fishing
Por Clara Machado e Helder Espírito-Santo Despite representing 47% of the global fishing workforce, women do not have the social and financial recognition they should, and fishing activities appear to be completely dominated by men. A recent scientific article led by Carolina Freitas, with the participation of other researchers from Instituto Juruá, shows that the […]
Actions against COVID-19 in the Médio Juruá
By Clara Machado According to the September 29 Bulletin, 2,134 cases and 17 deaths caused by COVID-19 have been reported to date in the municipality of Carauari. In general, the cases that occurred in rural communities were moderate and recovered without the need for transfer to hospitals in the city. To help curb the spread […]