ResearchBuzz: FirehoseGoogle Blog: Listen to the Brazilian rainforests and help contribute to AI research. “Today, we’re launching Forest Listeners, a new online AI experiment from Google Arts & Culture and Google DeepMind, developed in collaboration with our team at WildMon. The project invites people everywhere to help scientists by listening for the calls of hidden species in the rainforests of Brazil.”
UC Santa Cruz: Preserving the Amazon: A digital lifeline for the Biblioteca Amazónica. “Working with her co-principal investigator, anthropologist Sydney Silverstein of Wright State University, Smith set out to digitize the archives, collaborating closely with a local team of recent graduates and current students as well as library specialists in Iquitos. … The result of all this hard work […]
AsakiyumeLet me introduce you to a great fruit of the Amazon known in Colombian Spanish as copoazú (Theobroma grandiflorum). These pictures come from Fundación Omacha's Twitter feed. (Alas, many orgs still are only there) It's related to cacao (Theobroma cacao), which gives us chocolate. (As the third picture says, you can also get chocolate from copoazú)
Fundación Omacha link: https://omacha.org
#Amazonas #Amazonia #AmazonRegion #copoazú, #FundaciónOmacha
Pepijn Kooij"It is not just the El Nino current. Deforestation continues with these fires. The agricultural advance does not stop. They are destroying everything, as if they do not see what is happening to nature” #amazonregion #climatechange #deforestation https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/amazons-indigenous-people-urge-brazil-declare-climate-emergency-rivers-dry-up-2023-10-10/
Amazon's Indigenous people urge Brazil to declare climate emergency as rivers dry up
Indigenous inhabitants in the Amazon are asking the Brazilian government to declare a climate emergency as their villages have no drinking water, food or medicine due to a severe drought that is <a href="/world/americas/amazon-drought-strands-floating-brazilian-village-lake-turned-into-mud-2023-10-06/">drying up rivers</a> vital for travel in the rainforest, their leaders said on Tuesday.
Helen PughI have a chapter in Jungle-tastic Tales about how pre-Columbian societies in the Amazon were more complex and larger than previously thought.
Here's a new article about it:
"The vast network of interconnected settlements shows that the Amazon was much more populated during the pre-Columbian era than previously suspected".
#jungletastic #amazonRegion #kidsBook #history #amazon #precolumbian #southAmerica #archaeology #histodon
#qotd What's a book that taught you something incredible?
Both FREE on Amazon from today 1st July to 5th July
Two short legends from the Amazon region https://mybook.to/dolphins https://mybook.to/kuartam
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Both FREE on Amazon from tomorrow 1st July to 5th July
Two short legends from the Amazon region https://mybook.to/dolphins https://mybook.to/kuartam
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'A special election will be held this August where Ecuadorians will decide on a historic referendum to restrict oil in... the rainforest by answering the question, “Do you agree that the government should keep the oil in ITT... permanently in the ground?”'
https://amazonwatch.org/news/2023/0601-ecuador-makes-history-vote-to-keep-the-oil-in-the-ground-in-yasuni-underway
Amongst other themes, my book Jungle-tastic Tales explores nature resource extraction in the #AmazonRegion.
#oil #amazon #yasuni #Ecuador #rainforest #jungle #nature #naturalResources #environment #climate
Ecuador Makes History: Vote to Keep the Oil in the Ground in Yasuní Underway | Amazon Watch
The protection of Yasuní is crucial: It is one of the most biodiverse places on earth, and any invasions by oil and extractive activity could further destabilize our global climate and destroy the territory of the Tagaeri and Taromenane peoples.
This has only just come to my attention so apologies for the delay in posting about it.
Sonia Guajajara Appointed First Minister of Newly Created Ministry of Indigenous Affairs in Brazil
"Guajajara has a long history in the Brazilian Indigenous rights movement."
#brazil #brasil #indigenous #indigena #humanRights #environment #amazon #amazonia #amazonRegion
Sonia Guajajara Appointed First Minister of Newly Created Ministry of Indigenous Affairs in Brazil
By Edson Krenak (Krenak, CS Staff) In 2022, a Brazilian Indigenous activist joined the list of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world when she received an award in the Pioneers category. Her name is Sonia Bone de Souza Silva Santos (Guajajara), also known as Sonia Guajajara. Guajajara was born March 6, 1974, in the Arariboia Indigenous land Maranhão in northeastern Brazil. She is the mother of three children: Yaponã, 22, Mahkai, 20, and Ywara, 16.
Help show gratitude for Josefina Tunki’s Leadership in #Ecuador and #Peru.
#amazon #amazonRegion #Indigenous #jungle #rainforest #womenInLeadership #womensHistoryMonth #enivornment
https://amazonwatch.org/take-action/gratitude-for-josefina-tunkis-leadership
