What do we do?
OUR ACTIVITY
What we are trying to do is preserve the Amazon. It is different to conserve, which refers to keeping something that already exists in good condition. It does not necessarily imply active action. Preserving refers to protecting something from damage or alteration so that it can continue to exist in the future. It applies to nature, animal species or plants. We all know that without the Amazon the planet ceases to exist, preserving the Amazon represents a gigantic effort, no state alone can face it.
Amazonian biodiversity is enormous, with the highest species density on Earth, but remains poorly understood on many levels.
The diversity of organisms in the Amazon basin is among the highest on Earth (Bass et al. 2010). Approximately 10% of the world’s plant and vertebrate species are compressed into an area corresponding to ca. 0.5% of the Earth’s total surface (Jetz et al. 2012; Tedesco et al. 2017; Ter Steege et al. 2020) hosts almost 30% of all vascular plant species (Raven et al. 2020), vertebrates (Jenkins et al. 2013; Reis et al. 2016) and arthropods (Stork 2018) on Earth. The full dimensions of Amazonian diversity remain greatly underestimated (da Silva et al.2005; Barrowclough et al. 2016; García-Robledo et al.2020).

Between 1999 and 2015 alone, many new species of plants (1,155 spp.), fish (468 spp.), amphibians (321 spp.), reptiles (112 spp.), birds (79 spp.), and mammals (65 spp.) were described. spp.) throughout the Amazon basin (WWF 2016). Spectacular Amazonian species continue to be described. Including, for example, a new critically endangered marmoset monkey (Plecturocebus grovesi; Byrneet al. 2016), 15 new species of Amazonian birds described in a single publication (Whitney and Haft (2013); 44 new species of lungless salamanders Bolitoglossa that awaiting formal descriptions (Jaramillo et al. 2020), a distinctive and Critically Endangered new vanilla orchid (Vanilla denshikoira; Flanagan et al. 2018), and a new species of worm-shaped fish (Tarumania walkerae) are awaiting formal descriptions (Jaramillo et al. 2020). which inhabits moist leaf litter deep in the rainforest, and which represents a completely new family, the Tarumaniidae (de Pinna et al. 2018).
There are more tree species in one hectare of Amazon rainforest than in all of Europe (Ter Steege et al. 2006). B. Estimated numbers of species from selected Amazonian lineages, including vascular plants (Hubbell et al. 2008; Mittermeier et al. 2003; image by Roberts 1839), butterflies (Vieira and Höfer 2021; image by Hewitson 1856), mammals (Mittermeier et al. 2003; image from Jardine et al. 1840), amphibians and reptiles (Mittermeier et al. 2003; image by Jose Vieira / Tropical Herping), birds (Mittermeier et al. 2003; image by Gould 1852), and fish (Oberdorff et al. 2019, Jézéquel et al. 2020 ; image of Castelnau 1855). Note that the number of fish species corresponds to the entire basin, but the majority ( > 95%) are from the lower basin (Albert et al. 2011, 2020; Dagosta and de Pinna 2020).

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This Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical forest in the world. It is considered that its extension reaches 7,000,000 km2, distributed among nine countries, of which Brazil owns 60%. The Amazon stands out for being one of the ecoregions with the greatest biodiversity on the planet. Furthermore, the Amazon contributes to the regulation of the carbon cycle and climate change. The anomalies that occur in terms of increasing the rate of CO2 are in sync with dry periods in large parts of the Amazon, therefore, the Amazon acts as a global atmospheric gauge of CO2.
On November 11, 2011, the Amazon rainforest was declared one of the seven natural wonders of the world.