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26/02/2017

Mother turtles talk to their hatchlings! http://www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/voices-of-rare-talking-turtles-may-prevent-their-extinction/

Camila Ferrara is an aquatic turtle specialist with the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Brazil Programme. Here she tells us about her ground-breaking work to conserve Brazil’s most threatened river turtles. Years ago in the Brazilian Amazon, I was exposed to an unexpected but prevalent philoso...

25/02/2017

Riches from rubber trees....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023fb9r

Prof Kathy Willis explores the smuggling of rubber seeds from South America.

24/02/2017

The race in the 1840s between Kew's director William Ho**er and the Duke of Derbyshire's gardener Joseph Paxton to get the Amazon Waterlily to flower in the UK
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04bn08g

Kathy Willis examines the Victorian race to flower the Amazonian water lily.

08/02/2017

Think you've got a long commute?
How about these Amazonian catfish
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/07/extraordinary-migration-giant-amazon-catfish-revealed

The dorado catfish travels 11,600km from the Andes to the mouth of the Amazon and back, but is threatened by dams and mining

07/02/2017

Hundreds of ancient earthworks resembling Stonehenge found in Amazon rainforest

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/02/06/hundreds-ancient-earthworks-resembling-stonehenge-found-amazon/

Hundreds of ancient earthworks resembling those at Stonehenge were built in the Amazon rainforest, scientists have discovered after flying drones over the area.

03/02/2017

Read more about the meeting of the waters on our website where two very different rivers join to form the Amazon
http://equatorexpeditions.co.uk/meeting-of-waters/

18/01/2017

How does a community survive and thrive without numbers?

http://equatorexpeditions.co.uk/amazonian-language-you-cant-count-on/

Pirahã – an Amazonian language you can’t count on Posted by Amanda Oliver on June 8, 2016June 19, 2016 There are more than 300 indigenous languages in Amazonia and one, Pirahã is sparking considerable debate among linguistics across the globe....The Pirahã are an isolated, hunter-gatherer Amazonian…