Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) was the eldest son of a stocking-maker in Leicester and left school at 13 to apprentice in the family trade. A childhood hobby of collecting ... proposed an expedition ...

The Amazon river originates in the Andes mountains of Peru, traversing its way through Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Brazil before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. The Amazon ...

Forests flanking Brazil's rivers act as "highways" that have allowed tree species to move between the Amazon and Atlantic ...

The Ashaninka tribe of Amonia River live in a largely preserved area of Brazil's western Amazon rainforest ... The Piyãko family The Piyãko family has led the Ashaninka's transformation.

The Madeira River is the largest tributary flowing into the Amazon River and is home to many ... not high enough to exceed the limits set by Brazil's authorities, but still high enough to be ...