by James Lawrence | Apr 5, 2014 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
by Haakon Haagensen Excerpt from AMAZONAS Magazine, May/June 2014 There is no armored catfish more popular among aquarists than the black and white Hypancistrus from the Rio Xingu in Brazil known as the Zebra Pleco. Many pleco forms are near extinction in their...
by James Lawrence | Mar 9, 2014 | Freshwater
By Julian Dignall PlanetXingu/PlanetCatfish.com About this time a year ago, I began thinking about doing something tangible to support researchers at the Rio Xingu in Brazil. Much has been written about the plight of the river’s endemic and migratory species...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Apr 18, 2013 | Freshwater, News & Notes
Brazil Proposes to Approve the Planting of Invasive Fish Species Biologists fear a new wave of invasive fish species will be headed for Brazilian waters if legislation in that country’s Congress is passed. According to a new paper warning of the potential for an...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Dec 3, 2012 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater, News & Notes
Looking for species threatened by Brazil’s massive Belo Monte Project by Dr. Mark Sabaj Pérez—Special Report Excerpt from AMAZONAS, January/February 2013 With the specter of an ecosystem-killing hydroelectric dam project moving ahead in Brazil, the eyes of many...
by Steve Waldron | Apr 20, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Steve Waldron, AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
Don’t miss this ongoing series by Steve Waldron, Amazonas Senior Contributor and editor of Takashi Amano’s English biography, Origin of Creation. Finding the path to Nature Aquarium success article & images by Steve Waldron • The “Nature Aquarium,”...
