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Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands face worst fires

June 13, 2024504 Views

Fatima Brandao goes looking for her chickens in the backyard amidst a veil of smoke from the spreading fires that are engulfing the world's largest tropical wetland faster than ever before. "There never used to be smoke here. The sun shone clearly and the sky was always blue. Now the whole hill is on fire and smoke has clouded the entire area," she said. The Pantanal wetlands in central-western Brazil are home to a wide variety of animals, including jaguars, anacondas and giant anteaters. A drone view shows smoke from the fire rising into the air as trees burn amongst vegetation in the Pantanal, in Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, June 11. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino A shortfall of rain this year has caused the wildfire season to start earlier and become more intense th...

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Colombia wins first place again in the Global Big Day 2024

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May 25, 2024313 Views

A few days ago, The Country of Beauty excelled in the world's most important birding event, recording over 1,550 species, and showcasing its unparalleled biodiversity on the global stage. Colombia is the leading destination for birdwatching in the world. That's a fact. With a total of 1,558 species recorded and 12,007 checklists submitted during the Global Big Day, the Country of Beauty outperformed countries such as Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, and India, positioning itself at the top of the global count. Since the inception of Global Big Day in 2015, Colombia has ranked first in the standings since 2017, except for the year 2021. This event is organized by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, which invites people from around the world to observe and record birds for a day. Its goal is to...

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Inspiring together a responsible Eno Tourism

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April 11, 2024472 Views

Under this theme, the Global Wine Tourism Organization (GWTO) spearheaded the organization of the 1st GWTO Global Summit on Responsible EnoTourism in Punta del Este, Uruguay. This groundbreaking event, supported by institutional partners including the Ministry of Tourism (Uruguay Natural), INAVI, the Intendancies of Maldonado, Montevideo, Colonia de Sacramento, and Canelones, as well as private entities such as Bodegas Garzón, Enjoy Hotel, and Grupo Elis OPC, underscores GWTO's commitment to advancing the socio-economic development of wine destinations and elevating the global standing of EnoTourism brands. Arnaldo Nardone, GWTO MICE Director, and Pablo Singerman, GWTO Vice President LatAm, emphasized the significance of GWTO's decision to host the most comprehensive international MICE...

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New species of Amazon anaconda, world’s largest snake, discovered

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March 3, 2024571 Views

Researchers in the Amazon have discovered the world's largest snake species - an enormous green anaconda - in Ecuador's rainforest that split off from its closest relatives 10 million years ago though they still nearly look identical to this day. A video shared online shows the scale of these 20-foot-long (6.1-meter-long) reptiles as one of the researchers, Dutch biologist Freek Vonk, swims alongside a giant 200-kilo (441-pound) specimen. It was thought that there was only one species of green anaconda in the wild, the Eunectes murinus, but the scientific journal Diversity this month revealed that the new "northern green anaconda" belongs to a different, new species, Eunectes akiyama. "What we were there to do was use the anacondas as an indicator species for what kind of dam...

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A cluster of lost cities in Ecuadorian Amazon that lasted 1,000 years has been mapped

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January 12, 2024507 Views

Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago. A series of earthen mounds and buried roads in Ecuador was first noticed more than two decades ago by archaeologist Stéphen Rostain. But at the time, “I wasn’t sure how it all fit together,” said Rostain, one of the researchers who reported on the finding Thursday in the journal Science. Recent mapping by laser-sensor technology revealed those sites to be part of a dense network of settlements and connecting roadways, tucked into the forested foothills of the Andes, that lasted about 1,000 years. This LIDAR image provided by researchers in January 2024 shows complexes of rectangular platforms are arranged around low squares and distribute...

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Shakira gets immortalized in her home city with a giant statue

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December 28, 2023655 Views

Grammy-winning Colombian singer Shakira, one of the world's top-selling musicians, has been immortalized in her famous belly-dancing pose in a giant bronze statue in her home city of Barranquilla. The Colombian city's Mayor Jaime Pumarejo unveiled the 6.5 meter (21 foot) sculpture in a park along the banks of the Magdalena River on Tuesday in the company of the singer's parents. The statue of Colombian singer Shakira stands at the Gran Malecon de Barranquilla, in Barranquilla, Colombia December 27, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Parra Rios The statue by artist Yino Marquez "shows millions of girls that they can, that they can pursue their dreams and any of them can achieve what they want," said Pumarejo, noting that he used to see Shakira sing at local children's concerts. The sculpture...

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Peru lost more than half of its glacier surface in just over half a century

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November 26, 2023769 Views

Peru has lost more than half of its glacier surface in the last six decades, and 175 glaciers became extinct due to climate change between 2016 and 2020, Peruvian scientists from the state agency that studies glaciers said Wednesday. “In 58 years, 56.22% of the glacial coverage recorded in 1962 has been lost,” said Mayra Mejía, an official with Peru’s National Institute of Research of Mountain Glaciers and Ecosystems, or Inaigem. The factor that causes the greatest impact is the increase in the average global temperature, causing an accelerated retreat of glaciers, especially those in tropical areas, Jesús Gómez, director of glacier research at Inaigem, told The Associated Press. The South American country has 1,050 square kilometers (405 square miles) of glacial coverage lef...

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Ancient Amazon River rock carvings exposed by drought

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October 24, 2023446 Views

Human faces sculpted into stone up to 2,000 years ago have appeared on a rocky outcropping along the Amazon River since water levels dropped to record lows in the region's worst drought in more than a century. Some rock carvings had been sighted before but now there is a greater variety that will help researchers establish their origins, archaeologist Jaime de Santana Oliveira said on Monday. A view of ancient stone carvings on a rocky point of the Amazon river that were exposed after water levels dropped to record lows during a drought in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil October 23, 2023. REUTERS/Suamy Beydoun One area shows smooth grooves in the rock thought to be where Indigenous inhabitants once sharpened their arrows and spears long before Europeans arrived. "The engravings...

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Amazon River falls to lowest in over a century amid Brazil drought

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October 17, 2023754 Views

The Amazon River fell to its lowest level in over a century on Monday at the heart of the Brazilian rainforest as a record drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and damages the jungle ecosystem. Rapidly drying tributaries to the mighty Amazon have left boats stranded, cutting off food and water supplies to remote villages, while high water temperatures are suspected of killing more than 100 endangered river dolphins. Boats and houseboats are seen stranded in a dry area of the Igarape do Taruma stream which flows into the Rio Negro river, as the water level at a major river port in Brazil's Amazon rainforest hit its lowest point in at least 121 years, in Manaus, Brazil, October 16. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly The port of Manaus, the region's most populous city, at th...

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Workers uncover eight mummies, pre-Inca objects while expanding gas network in Peru

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September 23, 2023993 Views

Some archaeologists describe Peru’s capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises. That’s what some gas line workers got when their digging uncovered eight pre-Inca funeral bales. “We are recovering those leaves of the lost history of Lima that is just hidden under the tracks and streets,” Jesus Bahamonde, an archaeologist at Calidda, the company that distributes natural gas in the city of 10 million people, said Friday. Archaeologists uncover bones and vessels discovered by city workers who were digging a natural gas line for the company Calidda in the district of Carabayllo on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia) He said the company’s excavation work to expand its system of gas lines over the last ...