Amazon Rainforest Products
Products linked to the Amazon Rainforest include a range of familiar things we use today. For example, confectionary or personal care products involving cocoa or Brazil nuts can be traced…
Amazon Rainforest People
Are Amazon Rainforest people the refugees of once great civilizations, or the direct descendants of hunter-gather communities that expanded from Asia across the Bering Straight and down to the Amazon?…
Amazon Rainforest Soil
The soil in tropical forests lacks the nutrients of temperate forests as the majority of goodness is stored in the trees themselves. The relatively thin layer of soil doesn’t even…
Amazon Rainforest Canopy
Research in the Amazon Rainforest canopy has rocketed up total species estimates for the entire forest. Finding entire groups of animals that complete their entire lives high in the canopy,…
10 Iquitos Facts
Iquitos is the largest city in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest and has direct access to the mighty Amazon River. Iquitos is the largest city in the world unreachable by road….
Where is Iquitos
Iquitos is located in the north eastern Peruvian Amazon Rainforest 160 km east from the start of the Amazon River. Iquitos is located at 03°44’S latitude and 073°15’W longitude, which…
Iquitos Animals
The above photo of a sloth was taken at the Tahuayo Lodge, Iquitos, Peru. The most animals in Iquitos are short distance from the city itself. Urbanisation and agriculture have…
Amazing Amazon Explorers
Henry Walter Bates – Naturalist & Explorer (1825-1892) Born in 1825, Bates had a passion for wildlife and a spirit for adventure. Bates set off with naturalist companion Alfred Russell…
What to take to the Amazon Rainforest
As my guide would often say, “they don’t call it the rainforest for nothing” and one of the most recommended things to take to the Amazon Rainforest and on any…
Amazon Jungle Weather
Like other rainforests, the Amazon Jungle lies on the equator and receives more sunlight than any other vegetation zone. The amount of water at this latitude combined with the amount…