This video is called The Nature Conservancy – Rainforest movie: Amazon Rainforest, Brazil.
From mongabay.com:
A new report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) confirms the Amazon rainforest, even as it is shrinking due to deforestation, remains among the world’s most surprising places. According to the report, Amazon Alive, over the past decade (1999-2009) researchers have found 1,200 new species in the Amazon: one new species for every three days. Not surprisingly invertebrates, including insects, made up the bulk of new discoveries. But no type of species was left out: from 1999-2009 researchers discovered 637 new plants, 357 fish, 216 amphibians, 55 reptiles, 39 mammals, and 16 new birds. In new discoveries over the past decade, the Amazon has beaten out a number of high-biodiversity contenders including Borneo, the Eastern Himalayas, and the Congo rainforest.
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Drought ‘most severe on record’
Brazil: A severe drought has reduced water levels on a major Amazon tributary to their lowest point since officials began keeping records more than a century ago, the government reported on Monday, cutting off dozens of communities who depend on the river for work and transport.
The drought is hurting fishing, agriculture and other businesses, prompting authorities to declare a state of emergency in nearly 40 municipalities. Floods and droughts have become more extreme recently.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/96902
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“Johnny has two daddies” may have been
common in Amazon cultures:
Widespread promiscuity was tied to some surprising
ideas about paternity in many ancient societies,
anthropologists say.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/101110_amazonia
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