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Life inside the rainforest. Some estimates put the first human settlements in the Amazon at 32,000 to 39,000 years ago. Since that time, Amazon people have developed lifestyles that are well integrated with the benefits and constraints of rainforests.
Jun 23, 2021 · Corine Vriesendorp. A new study, published in the journal Proceeding of the National Academy of Science and led by a Smithsonian researcher, proves that over millennia, a region of rainforest in...
Learn about the Amazon's Indigenous peoples. For millennia, isolated Rainforest tribes that thrived on traditional lifestyles are now threatened.
Dec 19, 2020 · On September 6, 2019, seven Amazon countries signed the Leticia Pact, pledging a united effort in conservation of the rainforest. One element of this pact is strengthening Indigenous communities’ “capacities and participation” in “the sustainable development of the Amazon region.”
Sep 27, 2020 · Hemming’s latest book, People of the Rainforest: The Villas Boas Brothers, Explorers and Humanitarians of the Amazon, tells the remarkable story of the Villas Boas brothers, middle-class Brazilians from São Paulo who would go on to become arguably the largest driving force for the movement to protect the Amazon rainforest and recognize the right...
Studies suggest that 11.8 percent of the Amazon's terra firme forests are anthropogenic in nature resulting from the careful management of biodiversity by indigenous people.
The Amazon is one of the deadliest places in the world for environmental defenders and indigenous people, with 33 people murdered in 2019 alone, about 15% of the global total of killings.
