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 Matt Pedersen | Jun 13, 2013 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater, News & Notes
Crowd funding, the sourcing of voluntary financial backing directly from individual investors, patrons and contributors through the internet, is an ever-growing phenomenon. Reef To Rainforest used the crowd funding website Kickstarter to successfully launch the...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 19, 2013 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater, News & Notes
PASADENA, Calif. Jan. 17, 2013 – An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led study. These results, together with observed recurrences of droughts...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 16, 2013 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
By Hans=Georg Evers Images courtesy Hudson Crizanto Excerpt from Aquatic Notebook, AMAZONAS March/April 2013 Some time ago we featured Hudson Crizanto’s discus project on the lower Rio Purus in Brazil (Evers 2010). Since then, Crizanto and his company, H & K...
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...
