by Sara Leal | 03/11/2021 | News
Forest wildfires in the Amazon have emitted up to 1,298 Tg of CO2 since 1990, equivalent to the mean annual emissions of Japan. Fire-degraded forests store 25% less carbon than undisturbed forests and may represent a carbon source for at least ten years – even if the...
by Sara Leal | 03/11/2021 | Amazoniar (EN), News
Lays Ushirobira* The jury of the first edition of IPAM’s photo contest Amazoniar – Elza Lima, Felipe Russo, José Sabino and Martha Fellows – selected the winners of the four categories: Earth Sciences, Cultural Heritage, Conservation and Biodiversity. They chose...
by Sara Leal | 01/11/2021 | News
The third series of debates of Amazoniar, under the theme “Culture and art of indigenous peoples as a form of resistance”, came to an end on Thursday (Oct 21st). During the last event, communicator Erisvan Guajajara and artist Daiara Tukano addressed a point that...
by Sara Leal | 15/10/2021 | News
Even living completely different paces, people who occupy the urban space, the countryside and the forest have always been connected, according to Matsipaya Txucarramãe, one of the participants of the last event of Amazoniar, which took place on Oct 7th under the...
by Sara Leal | 08/10/2021 | News
More than a passion, storytelling is a way that writer and educator Daniel Munduruku found to “provoke people and unravel their way of thinking”. For him, it is a way to challenge colonialist logic and encourage to see things from other points of view. “These are...
