“This is a good time. It’s when we used to wake up to cast our net on the river,” Adan Pereira says. “The hard part was to play odds and evens to see who’d get in the water. But I’d feel sorry for my father and do it.” It’s 4 a.m., and we’ve just boarded […]
“I had never seen these colored types of corn until I was 22 years old,” says Jerá Poty Mirim. “I’d only seen Tupi corn, the yellow kind you find in the city. And today out on our territory, we have more than nine types of Guarani corn, 15 types of sweet potato, and many native […]
Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.