#amazonregion — Public Fediverse posts

Google Blog: Listen to the Brazilian rainforests and help contribute to AI research. “Today, we’re launching Forest Listeners, a new online AI experiment from Google Arts & Culture and Google DeepMind, developed in collaboration with our team at WildMon. The project invites people everywhere to help scientists by listening for the calls of hidden species in the rainforests of Brazil.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/07/google-blog-listen-to-the-brazilian-rainforests-and-help-contribute-to-ai-research/

UC Santa Cruz: Preserving the Amazon: A digital lifeline for the Biblioteca Amazónica. “Working with her co-principal investigator, anthropologist Sydney Silverstein of Wright State University, Smith set out to digitize the archives, collaborating closely with a local team of recent graduates and current students as well as library specialists in Iquitos. … The result of all this hard work […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/23/preserving-the-amazon-a-digital-lifeline-for-the-biblioteca-amazonica-uc-santa-cruz/

UC Santa Cruz: Preserving the Amazon: A digital lifeline for the Biblioteca Amazónica. “Working with her co-principal investigator, anthropologist Sydney Silverstein of Wright State University, Smith set out to digitize the archives, collaborating closely with a local team of recent graduates and current students as well as library specialists in Iquitos. … The result of all this hard work […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/23/preserving-the-amazon-a-digital-lifeline-for-the-biblioteca-amazonica-uc-santa-cruz/

UC Santa Cruz: Preserving the Amazon: A digital lifeline for the Biblioteca Amazónica. “Working with her co-principal investigator, anthropologist Sydney Silverstein of Wright State University, Smith set out to digitize the archives, collaborating closely with a local team of recent graduates and current students as well as library specialists in Iquitos. … The result of all this hard work […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/23/preserving-the-amazon-a-digital-lifeline-for-the-biblioteca-amazonica-uc-santa-cruz/

Impacts of urbanization on energy balance in a central Amazonia city https://www.byteseu.com/1471482/ #AmazonRegion #EddyCovarianceMeasurements #Energy #EnergyBalanceClosure #EnvironmentalImpact #EnvironmentalSciences #HeatStorage #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences #multidisciplinary #Science #UrbanClimate

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

I have a chapter in Jungle-tastic Tales about how pre-Columbian societies in the Amazon were more complex and larger than previously thought.

Here's a new article about it:

"The vast network of interconnected settlements shows that the Amazon was much more populated during the pre-Columbian era than previously suspected".

#jungletastic #amazonRegion #kidsBook #history #amazon #precolumbian #southAmerica #archaeology #histodon

#qotd What's a book that taught you something incredible?

Both FREE on Amazon from today 1st July to 5th July

Two short legends from the Amazon region https://mybook.to/dolphins https://mybook.to/kuartam

#amazon #kindle #free #freebooks #freeebooks #ebooks #reading #legends #jungle #bookodon #readingCommunity #ebook #book #books #amazonRegion

Both FREE on Amazon from today 1st July to 5th July

Two short legends from the Amazon region https://mybook.to/dolphins https://mybook.to/kuartam

#amazon #kindle #free #freebooks #freeebooks #ebooks #reading #legends #jungle #bookodon #readingCommunity #ebook #book #books #amazonRegion

Both FREE on Amazon from tomorrow 1st July to 5th July

Two short legends from the Amazon region https://mybook.to/dolphins https://mybook.to/kuartam

#amazon #kindle #free #freebooks #freeebooks #ebooks #reading #legends #jungle #bookodon #readingCommunity #ebook #book #books #amazonRegion

Both FREE on Amazon from tomorrow 1st July to 5th July

Two short legends from the Amazon region https://mybook.to/dolphins https://mybook.to/kuartam

#amazon #kindle #free #freebooks #freeebooks #ebooks #reading #legends #jungle #bookodon #readingCommunity #ebook #book #books #amazonRegion

'A special election will be held this August where Ecuadorians will decide on a historic referendum to restrict oil in... the rainforest by answering the question, “Do you agree that the government should keep the oil in ITT... permanently in the ground?”'
https://amazonwatch.org/news/2023/0601-ecuador-makes-history-vote-to-keep-the-oil-in-the-ground-in-yasuni-underway

Amongst other themes, my book Jungle-tastic Tales explores nature resource extraction in the #AmazonRegion.

#oil #amazon #yasuni #Ecuador #rainforest #jungle #nature #naturalResources #environment #climate

This has only just come to my attention so apologies for the delay in posting about it.

Sonia Guajajara Appointed First Minister of Newly Created Ministry of Indigenous Affairs in Brazil

"Guajajara has a long history in the Brazilian Indigenous rights movement."

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/sonia-guajajara-appointed-first-minister-newly-created-ministry-indigenous-affairs-brazil

#brazil #brasil #indigenous #indigena #humanRights #environment #amazon #amazonia #amazonRegion

Help show gratitude for Josefina Tunki’s Leadership in #Ecuador and #Peru.

#amazon #amazonRegion #Indigenous #jungle #rainforest #womenInLeadership #womensHistoryMonth #enivornment
https://amazonwatch.org/take-action/gratitude-for-josefina-tunkis-leadership

Pre-order now from books2read.com/cuentos-inca

Improve your Spanish whilst learning about the Amazon Region!

#Spanish #learnSpanish #amazonRegion #jungle

As featured in Jungle-tastic Tales (out now!)

https://explorersweb.com/great-expeditions-orellanas-navigation-of-the-amazon/

#conquistador #Amazon #river #historyForKids #histodon #amazonRegion #jungle #rainforest #kidsBook

Great news and advice for people who inherit artefacts that should be repatriated!

And by chance, today we watched a film where a kid found archaeological pieces and decided to repatriate them to the Amazon region!
🥰😍🥰

#history #archeology #amazon #amazonregion
#archaeology #antiques #goodnews #Guardian #histodon
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/culture/2022/nov/11/man-repatriates-19-antiquities-after-reading-guardian-article

Some impressive, some cute, some dangerous, there are all sorts of animals in Jungle-tastic Tales.

A free story from Jungle-tastic Tales called The Mysterious Helpers is out now: books2read.com/helpers

QOTD: When did you last visit a farm/zoo/safari park?

#animals #jungle #jungleanimals #toucan #capybara #puma #sloth #kidsbook #shortstories #wildlife #rainforest #amazon #amazonregion #amazonrainforest

This is well worth a read.
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-americas/2022/09/amazon-catholic-leaders-isolated-indigenous-peoples-must-be-protected

#amazon #amazonia #amazonregion #rainforest

Coming 16/8/22!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5

"This story is about diversity, respect, trust, and helping each other. I believe everyone should read this beautiful story."

#bookworm #kidsbook #kidsstory #southamerica #ecuador #rainforest #indigenous #legend #mountain #jungle #amazonregion #amazonrainforest #books #writingcommunity

https://books2read.com/helpers

Currently reading this for research.

It's a compelling nonfiction account of genocidal atrocities committed during the rubber boom in Peru. Highly recommend. It's definitely something that should be more widely known. I lived in the Ecuadorian Amazon for over 7 years and didn't know how bad it was before I read this.

QOTD: Tell me something that more people should be aware of.

#books #peru #amazonregion #rubber #humanrights #nonfiction #southamerica #justice #history #rainforest #indigenous