The Amazon is often described as an ecosystem under dire threat due to climate change and deliberate deforestation. Yet there is still considerable hope that these threats can be mitigated. In the face of these threats, indigenous conservationists are attempting to strike a balance between tradition and preserving Amazonia.

Meanwhile, two river journeys more than 100 years apart ” one by a contemporary National Geographic reporter and another by The Lewis and Clark of Brazil” draw attention to the beauty and diversity of one of the worlds most important ecosystems.  

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