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Remembering the environmentalist eaten by the world’s largest snake: challenge stopped live “She’s consuming me”
Paul Rosolie let a 20ft anaconda wrap around his body and bite his head, all in the name of saving the Amazon.
Q&A: How anacondas, chickens, and locals may be able to coexist in the Amazon
BC: One of the greatest myths is about the Great Snake—a huge snake that is said to inhabit the Amazon River and sleep ...
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In Peru, Yine women show how defending the Amazon supports local livelihoods
As Linda Alvarado, a young Indigenous Yine leader, travels through the forest in the depths of the Peruvian Amazon, she ...
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“Chicken is her favorite dish. If one clucks, she comes”: how anacondas, chickens, and locals may be able to coexist in the Amazon
Dr Beatriz Cosendey is an associate researcher at the Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development and a postdoctoral ...
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Cluck once, and the river shakes: Inside the Amazon’s giant snake saga
A lifelong fascination with nature and fieldwork led this researcher to the world of ethnobiology a field where ecology, ...
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Brazil & China megarailway raises deforestation warnings in the Amazon
From Lucas do Rio Verde, a major agricultural hub in the state of Mato Grosso, the railway would be built from scratch, ...
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Isolated Nomads Are Under Siege in the Amazon Jungle
Case in point: In January 2018 Peru’s Congress passed a controversial law declaring the construction of roads in remote parts of the Amazon to be “of priority and national interest.” ...
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Restoring waterways for jaguars in the Peruvian Amazon
Madre de Dios, a region in southeastern Peru known as the country’s biodiversity capital, covers 19.3 million acres (7.8 ...