The Cristalino Reserve is a private reserve of around 11,400 hectares in the southern Brazilian Amazon Rainforest. The reserve is at a crossroads of different ecosystems, such as the Amazon Rainforest and Pantanal Wetlands, which has led to a very high diversity of animals and plants with many species found nowhere else on Earth. Founded […]
The Amazon Rainforest’s canopy is the richest level for forest life. The trees can reach 145 feet (45 meters) into the sky, with some emergent species growing even higher. They branch out in competition with other plants to get as much sunlight as possible. As the trees spread out to catch the light, they forms […]
The southern Amazon Rainforest is the area of the basin at the lowest reaches of the Amazon´s waterways. The forest itself crosses nine nations and the southern portion is mainly contained by Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. Of all the areas in Amazonia, the most developed tourism industry is in the forest of southern Peru, which […]
No place in the southern Brazilian Amazon has been studied so intensely in terms of biodiversity as the area surrounding the city of Alta Floresta in southern Brazil. One conclusion from these studies is that no other place in the eastern Amazon has such a high assemblage and richness of bird life. Alta Floresta sits […]