by AMAZONAS Magazine | Aug 11, 2016 | Freshwater, News & Notes
Brazilian environmental agency rejects Tapajós River mega-dam, citing likely major impacts on Amazon’s indigenous people and the environment by Sue Branford, originally published August 4th, 2016 at MongaBay Ibama, Brazil’s environmental agency has denied an...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jul 1, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater, News & Notes
As part of its mission to improve and promote the aquarium fishery based along Brazil’s Rio Negro, nonprofit organization Project Piaba held a “train the trainers” workshop in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil this week. The workshop saw an...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | May 21, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
The ‘Cururu’ or ‘Rio Negro Hystrix’ Ray, which has been known in the trade and hobby for some time, was recently described scientifically in a paper published in the journal Zootaxa this past month. Endemic to Brazil’s Rio...
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 | 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...
