Harvesting the nuts is not an easy task. If the nuts fall from the trees, they are so heavy they could kill someone. The collectors gather the nuts, crack them, and then haul up to 110-pound loads out of the jungle. The harvesting almost disappeared years ago because middlemen were taking all the profits and…
There are hundreds of indigenous tribes in the Amazon rainforest. The indigenous groups in all of South America have disappeared or been torn apart by the colonization process, disease, alcohol, forced labor and war. For long period of time the Amazon rainforest was a giant refugee for the indigenous population. This happened because the lack…
The Amazon rainforest is a very unique place in the world and if you are going to travel there you can use some tips that will make your experience much better. First you need to pack for the Amazon. If you are going to five star forest hotel (there are some) you don’t need to…
The Amazon rainforest is the biggest forest in the world and is also the last big space covered with tropical plants and animals. The Amazon forest territory is a tropical rainforest that is located in the north side of the South American continent and is shared by 9 countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela,…
The Amazon rainforest has a huge live collection of flora species. Botanical experts say that in 2.5 acres of the forest you can find 700 different species of trees and twice that number of plants. One of the most awesome things you will notice is that the forest has a high density of trees and…
In Brazil deforestation increased 28 percent for the time period of 2012-2013. In fact the world loses about 50 soccer field size plots of forest a minute. A team of scientists from the University of Maryland, worked with Google and the US government to develop a forest mapping system that showed exactly where and how…
A recent study has drawn the conclusion that it is possible for the Amazon rainforest to become a barren desert. You might be wondering how this could happen to a region known for it’s rainfall and vast river networks. The study shows that a combination of droughts, changes in the climate and human deforestation of…
Acai berries come from açaí palm trees which belong to the genus Euterpe, and is from the species Euterpe oleracea. Acai palms generally grow to a height of about eighty feet and have branches about 8 feet long that are full of pinnate leaves. As the acai berry has gained in popularity so has the…
Many millions of years ago, in the Paleozoic era, all the land was part of a unique continent, the Pangaea. Salt water washed the Amazon region and possibly reached Peru and Bolivia . The end of the Paleozoic marks the incorporation of the Amazon River basin to the continent but only on the Cenozoic period…
For the indigenous population the Amazon rainforest is important because it is their home and their culture is closely related to the forest, rivers and fauna . If you destroy the forest you also destroy all the indigenous people that are left. Some of the tribes in the Amazon still have not had contact with…