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 […]
Does it make sense to talk about gender inequality in science?
By Iohara Quirino, Amanda Oliveira e Maíra Pivato In a mind-boggling academic race for publications, project approvals and university vacancies, the truth is that women are constantly behind men. We know that gender inequality is a fact present in the whole of society. For centuries, we women have shown dissatisfaction with the way we are […]
The Juruá women’s association with Quilvilene da Cunha
Por Clara Machado Extractive women have their freedom limited either by the obedience they owe to their father and, after marriage to their husband, or by the lack of involvement in decisions on how to spend the income produced collectively by the family. Despite participating in the various tasks of swidden agriculture, fishing and extractivism, […]
Women’s knowledge about edible biodiversity
By Clara Machado “Who we are” and “what we know” are concepts so intricate that they can become indistinguishable. After all, we form our knowledge about the world from the experiences we have. And our experiences are determined by our gender, age group, territory, skin color and many other factors that make us up. In […]
Personalities of the Mid-Juruá
By Ozangela Cunha de Lima A strong female role model in my community is my grandmother Noemia da Silva Rodrigues. A warrior woman, a farmer who worked hard to support her fourteen children. She was a wife, mother and a great leader, Noemia was the matriarch of our community. My grandmother Noemia was an example […]
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 […]