The trip from the heart of Almeirim municipality, on the banks of the Amazon River, to the rural community of Cafezal takes nearly three hours on the fast boat, referred to as “the flyer” by the people living on the river. “But to get to where the nut trees are, it’s another three hours by […]
The protected swathes of primary Amazon Rainforest in the Paru State Forest in the north of Brazil became the fifth-most deforested conservation unit in October, official data show. Illegal land-grabbing and cattle ranching leave environmentalists concerned about the protection of the region’s giant trees, including the tallest in the biome. “The amount of deforestation in […]