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One of the objectives of the ZEE process (Zonificación Ecológica y Económica) was to assist Amazon nations in allocating their public lands among different constituencies and stakeholder groups. The group with the highest public profile, at least in recent years, is the Indigenous people who have organised a highly successful campaign to assert their territorial rights and formalise their claims to their ancestral territories. 
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Forcing Indigenous people out of protected areas they help manage and rely on is not the way to achieve biodiversity and climate goals.
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Are you up to speed on #30x30? Is it 'fortress conservation' in disguise or a radical new approach to biodiversity conservation? Thoughts? #conservation #Indigenousrights #biodiversity
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Empowering Maijuna Youth Through Film for the Defense of Ancestral Lands | Creative Action Institute
Using the Creative Action Institute methodology, Maijuna youth in Peru were led in workshops to promote their creative expression. This cultivation process included dance, song, script-writing, painting, collage, and theatre. The process culminated in the creation of four short films, as part of the Icaro Project
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Southern Amazonia is one of the less-explored regions by anuran taxonomists. We describe a small new species of snouted treefrog, genus Scinax, from this region, from a fluvial archipelago in the Juruena River, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil."
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Wondering what goes into to describing a new species? This article will show you and your students how!
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The Amazon needs us. Our answer is education. The mission of the Morpho Institute is to support the key role of education in realizing the global goal of Amazon conservation and sustainability. Learn more about our field programs for K12 educators and connect your classroom to the Amazon with our resources and free webinars. https://morphoinstitute.org/
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Freshwater dolphins face an uncertain future as their waterways heat up. But a Columbian biologist has made it his life's work to advocate for the Amazon's "pink ambassadors."
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New evidence suggests that the Amazon may have been a hive of human industry thousands of years ago—and that it could potentially become that kind of hub again.
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Of the many important reasons to worry about the thousands of fires raging in the world’s largest rainforest, oxygen supply is not one of them.
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So how does anyone tackle a problem so large and complex as trying to reverse deforestation on a major scale? Enter AI.
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The Amazon rain forest is in the middle of a record-breaking drought because of deforestation, El Niño and climate change
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The Amazon Rainforest is Earth's greatest life reserve, and a key part of solving climate change. Explore how our lives are tied to this place and how we can protect it.
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When it supports their claims, Western scientists value what Traditional Knowledge has to offer. If not, they dismiss it
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For the Maijuna of the Peruvian Amazon, harvesting honey from stingless bees is bringing prosperity and empowerment. Local beekeeping might also help preserve a vast ancestral forest.
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Colombian researchers came up with a model to identify critical sites for preserving and enhancing the ecological connections between Colombia's protected areas.
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Estimated to be twice the size of India and contain 10 percent of the world’s known species, the Amazon rainforest is a critically important ecosystem — but not just to the plants and animals that …
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Explore the Morpho Institute's conservation efforts and educational programs in the Amazon rainforest with Christa Dillabaugh. Discover their initiatives, challenges, and upcoming projects, advocating for sustainable practices and biodiversity monitoring in the region.
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The first MAAP report, published in March 2015, took a detailed look at the escalating gold mining deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. The following 198 reports, over the past 8.5 years, continue…
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Climate change, deforestation and other human threats are driving the rainforest towards a tipping point of sustainability. Researchers are racing to chart the Amazon’s future.
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The new global target aims to protect 30 percent of land and waters. But is it a powerful goal or an empty slogan?
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In August 2017 Eliane Brum, one of Brazil’s best-known journalists, moved from the great metropolis of São Paulo to Altamira, a small, violence-plagued
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The Amazon needs us. Our answer is Education. The Morpho Insititute is a conservation education nonprofit providing PD trips to the Amazon, curriculum resources, and much more.
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A new report highlights the discovery of hundreds of new species in the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
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