by AMAZONAS Magazine | Nov 30, 2015 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
The allure of travel, tropical rivers, and learning exactly where the fish in our home aquariums come from has never been far from my mind, even after a long trip through Southeast Asia doing exactly that. After some months back in the U.S. working and tending to my...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Aug 23, 2013 | Freshwater
As the keeping of tropical fish is emerging as a boom in Asia, especially among China’s exploding middle classes, some South American aquacultural entrepreneurs are racing to meet the growing demand for exotic aquarium fishes. In Colombia’s Caqueta...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Mar 6, 2013 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
It was April 2011, and it had been over 20 years since my last visit to the Magdalena Valley in Colombia. This time, my objective was to discover why the export of the legendary Blue-Eyed Pleco, Panaque cochliodon, from this region came to a standstill in 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...
