Brazilian police arrested 2 suspects in the amazon murder. The only reason I’m sharing with you this news is because the victims of this horrible crime were murdered just because they tried to protect the amazon rainforest.
I found this article in the guardian.co and I knew I must make a blog post on this issue.
Ribeiro da Silva and Do Espírito Santo were often threatened with death threats because of their fight to protect the environment, and last November the former told a TEDx conference in Manaus that he expected to be killed. “I will protect the forest at all costs. That is why I could get a bullet in my head at any moment,” he said.
On May 24th six months after this environmental conference José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo, were killed. For more information please check the source article here.
José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva photo from guardian.co.uk
I want to take a moment and say thank you for those brave people that were willing to sacrifice their life in order to protect the amazon rainforest. I can only wish next time the police would prevent murder such as this one before it happen.
When I heard about new advanced technology and the wild rainforest my first reaction was- oh oh bad news! What have we done to mother nature this time?!
But don’t worry this time Google comes with good intentions
The concept is simply brilliant - The Amazon Sustainable Foundation (FAS) add a vision – turning Google Earth “street view” into “river view” in the Amazon river. This vision is now becoming reality!
I believe This is an exciting news! It can help raise awareness to what really is going on in the amazon rainforest and the challenges we all must face before it will be too late.
Check out what FAS project leader Gabriel Ribenboim had to say
“It is very important to show the world not only the environment and the way of life of the traditional population, but to sensitise the world to the challenges of climate change, deforestation and combating poverty.”
If you want to read more about this project and to better understand the technology behind it you should check this article.
What do you guys think about this project, Do you believe it can and will make a difference? Are we really going to use it to better understand how we can preserve the forest and help the locals at the same time? I truly hope it will. One thing for sure this project will bring us more beautiful images from the amazing amazon rainforest and the river basin.
The amazon rainforest is huge, over 2.5 millions square miles of green forest and rivers. and it is home to some amazing amazon rainforest animals.
I want to share with you today some of the more weird funny looking animals you can find on this special rainforest. it is a short list and I’m sure there are a lot more cool animals out there in the forest that I missed. but for now I hope you will find this list useful
Anteaters are edentate animals which mean they are mammal without any teeth, but don’t worry his long (2 feet) tongue and his sharp claws helping him catch his prey. the Giant Anteater can eat 35,00 termites and ants everyday- WOW!
He is a real giant and he can reach 7 fetes longs including his tail.
Spider monkey
even though you can find them in central america as well the spider monkey do like the Amazon rainforest.
his long tail and long harms help him jump around from one rainforest tree to the other, and he his spending most of his life up on the trees. it is a social animal how lives in a groups of 20-40 monkeys.
Amazon pink river Dolphin
Definitely one of the most mysterious creature in our small list.
They born grey and become pinkish as they grow older. they come in different shade of pink it is depends on the clarity of the water they are living in. the muddier the water are the more pink the dolphin will appear. in average they are about 6.5 feet in length. their snout is longer than other dolphin species and it helping them catch fish and find their way in the muddy water.
Poison dart frog
Those colorful, small frogs have enough venom in them to kill 10 grown mens!
They have only one predator a snake named Leimadophis epinephelus which developed a resistance to the frog poison. some amazon tribe used to tips their darts with the frog venom and used it to hunt, So please be careful if you meet this beautiful dangers creature.
As I said this is only a small list of animals and there is so many, probably thousands of amazon rainforest animals. If you know of some special, one of a kind animal please tell us all about it in the comments below.
Even though I’m not an experts, i have decided to research, write and share with you some amazon rainforest facts.
Since I was a little girl I always wanted to learn all the interesting amazon rainforest facts and of course visit this amazing place. I imagined it as the most preserve, wild and magical rainforest in the world.
Amazon Rainforest Facts
As I grown older I learned that this wasn’t only my imagination. it is true this rainforest is a one of kind. I searched the web and all the book I could find in the library (a lot), I talked with some people how where brave and lucky enough to actually visit the amazon. and I guttered some amazing amazon rainforest facts.
The amazon rainforest got his name from the amazon river.
The amazon rainforest was describe as the “lungs of our plants” since 20% of the world oxygen is produce there.
The amazon rainforest is spread over 2.5 million square miles all over the south american continent. The Amazon river runs through Venezuela, Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.
The amazon basin is the biggest tropical rainforest in the world.
The Amazon river start at the Peruvian Andes and after 4.080 miles he meets the atlantic ocean in Belem Brazil.
The amazon river is also known as Amazonia.
Amazonia cover more than 1/2 of Brazil.
The Amazon is 2nd longest river in the world after the Nile in Africa.
More than 1/3 of the the world’s bird species live in the amazon.
There are over 2500 fish species in the amazon river, which mean it has more fish species than the entire atlantic ocean
There are 1800 species of butterflies living the rainforest.
You can find more than 200 species of mosquitoes in the Amazon.
It is home to over 40000 plant species.
The Amazon rainforest is also an home to a lot of endangered species such as hyacinth macaw, golden-lion tamarin, jaguar, the three-toed sloth and more.
Scientists believe there is around 50 native amazon tribes who live deep in the rainforest and never had any contact with civilized culture
As I wrote before those are only some of the amazon rainforest facts, I bet there is at least hundred more facts you can find on this amazing rainforest and if you happen to know some interesting facts, please share it with us in the comment below.
And check out this beautiful video on the Amazon rainforest
