Indio family
January 25th, 2010
Scientists found in the Amazon forest a new small specie of ape, whose habitat is threatened by building projects now. The discovery of the 23 cm long and only 213 gram heavy little monkey was published by the Wildlife Conversation Society (WCS) in New York in the International Journal of Primatology by the authors Fábio Rohe, José de Sousa e Silva Jr, Ricardo Sampaio and Anthony Rylands. ...more
November 15th, 2009
According to a bill of the Brazilian government, that president Lula still has to submit to the congress for investigation, at the most 10% of the surface of the region of the Legal Amazon may in future be owned by foreigners. Presently the figure is maximum 25% independent of the region. ...more
Mai 2nd, 2009
According to the Manaus newspaper "A Crítica", Ticuna Indians from the community Umariau II in Tabatinga, State of Amazonas, have established recently a vigilante service to fight crime within their own ranks. The aim is to prevent the entry of alcoholic beverages into the region as well as drug consumption and drug trafficking. ...more
April 3rd, 2009
On a meeting with the Brazilian Minister of Environment Carlos Minc in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, the governors of the Amazonian Federal States declared today that foreign countries should pay both small farmers and great land owners of the region for the preservation of the Amazonian Rain Forest. ...more
July 28th, 2008
The Pico da Neblina
After a period of suspense caused by government restrictions, we are proud to inform that we have re-iniciated our Pico da Neblina operations with regular departures. ...more
Juni 2nd, 2008
Caimans, killed by hunters, which should serve as baits (Marina de Brito/Instituto Mamirauá)
According to information from the Brazilian environmental agency IBAMA, Colombian fishermen pay Brazilian hunters in the western Amazonia for killing river dolphins and caimans, which shall serve as baits for the illegal catch of Piracatingas (Calophysus macropterus), a species of catfish. Up to know it is unknown, how many animals die all in all thereby per year since the largest part of the catfish is smuggled to Colombia. ...more
May 15th, 2006
In February 2006 we have been visited by a group of 16 students with their professors from the economic faculty of the University of Virginia (UVA). The voyage was themed "The Business of Saving Nature". ...more
April 18th, 2006
The Amazon rainforest
Brazil's Ministry of Environment said during the eighth meeting of the Conference on Biodiversity (COP 8) which took place end of March 2006 in Curitiba, Brazil, it would declare more 81,000 square miles of the Amazon rainforest a protected area in the next three years. ...mehr
September 6th, 2005