Two years of gold mining devastates Peruvian peatlands, outpacing damage of the last 30 years
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-years-gold-devastates-peruvian-peatlands.html
"Despite seeking to make Brazil a leader in the fight against global warming, @lula.com.br backs oil exploration as key to growth in Latin America's biggest economy." #Brazil #oil #Amazonia #climate #globalwarming #Cop30 #Lula
Perhaps you need to spend 19 seconds with the sounds and colors of the Colombian Amazon? (Video sent to me by a friend there) #Amazonas #Colombia #Amazonia #rainforest #LaSelva
Simplesmente uma rodovia de quatro faixas está sendo construída, no meio da floresta amazônica, para a COP30, cúpula do clima que será realizada em Belém.
Red-bordered stink bug (Edessa rufomarginata), probably, Santa Teresa Cusco.
I told my friend and tutor that thanks to her lessons I was able to understand the Tikuna spoken in the film (well, a lot of it, anyway), and she said the Tikuna-speaking character is her uncle! She sent me this, circling him. #languages #IndigenousLanguages #Ticuna #Tikuna #Amazonas #Amazonia
Thoughtful review from 2016 of EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (2015), which I saw yesterday. #films #IndgenousPeoples #Colombia #Amazonas #Amazonia
https://nacla.org/news/2016/04/08/embrace-serpent-reframing-colombian-amazon
Saw Embrace of the Serpent (2015), part of an indigenous film festival. FABULOUS film, set in 1909 & 1940 in the Colombian Amazon.
It's shot it in BW to capture the feel of documentation from those days, & it plays w/time in great ways. AND I got to hear some Tikuna. #Film #Colombia #Amazonia #IndigenousSurvival
Map of the Amazon River from 1707, naming the various peoples who live along it.
You can see in the source line that in those days, another name for the Amazon was "Marañon"--Cashew. The great Cashew River.
My proximate source for the image is a recorded class by the linguist Denis Bertet.
Eunectes murinus, the green anaconda, semiaquatic and Very Large Serpent...
A friend in the Amazon said that if an anaconda knows an area is drying out, they move to safer waters, carving a channel through the mud, and all the fish come with them. From then on, the place they abandon will never be water-filled again. #anaconda #serpent #snake #Amazonia #Amazonas #FolkWisdom #folkloreThursday
Let 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
What does the Colombian Amazon sound like?
"Ser guardiana no es solo cuidar el territorio, es también cuidar de nuestras familias. Nuestra lucha es por la vida, por la tierra, ye por nuestros hijos" --quote from a post by Escuela de Comunicación Indígena de la Amazonía facebook page, October 1 2024. Photo is from that page.
