by Matt Pedersen | Apr 22, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater, News & Notes
With all the doom and gloom out there lately, I admit, it’s tough to keep up. For aquarists interested in rare and exciting Loricarids, Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam captured our attention, the forecasted extinctions a huge hydroelectric project would cause are...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 22, 2012 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater, News & Notes
By Louise Watson, Amazonas Staff Report Images: Rafael Salazar/www.amazonwatch.org Excerpt from AMAZONAS, November/December 2012 Biologists and human rights observers are calling it an epic disaster in the making, a massive river-damming complex in the heart of the...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Apr 23, 2016 | Freshwater
Brasilia, Brazil: In a surprising move, IBAMA, the administrative arm of the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment, suspended the environmental licensing process of the controversial São Luiz do Tapajós Dam in the Brazilian Amazon on April 20, 2016. The move came just...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Apr 1, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
Article & images by Michael J. Tuccinardi Excerpt from AMAZONAS, May/June 2016 Xingu. The word itself conjures up the image of a remote and impossibly exotic locale, one of the last truly wild places left on the map. For aquarium enthusiasts worldwide, the...
by Matt Pedersen | Jun 13, 2013 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater, News & Notes
Crowd funding, the sourcing of voluntary financial backing directly from individual investors, patrons and contributors through the internet, is an ever-growing phenomenon. Reef To Rainforest used the crowd funding website Kickstarter to successfully launch the...
