Acre Travel Guide |
Our overview of the state of Acre.
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Fishing in the Amazon with Pepper and Flávio |
BrazilMax’s Bill Hinchberger joins a fishing expedition in the Amazon.
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Amazon Explorer: Interview with Sydney Possuelo |
Sydney Possuelo was the first outsider to make contact with seven isolated Indian tribes in Brazil’s Amazon jungle. Now he leads expeditions that try to not make contact. That way he hopes to help indigenous peoples protect their unique cultures. After a career that spanned 33 years and governments of diverse ideologies, Possuelo was fired by the Lula administration in early 2006 after criticizing its policy for Brazil’s indigenous people. We talked to the legendary explorer about his jungle exploits.
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Getting to the Palm Heart of Development |
Home to 150 families at the end of a long stretch of dirt road, Guapiruvú sits astride Intervales State Park in São Paulo state. Two other state parks lie adjacent. The three reserves protect a bit of what’s left of the Atlantic Rainforest. By promoting community-based, environmentally-conscious economic development, including ecotourism, a local organization is helping to offer alternatives to predatory hunting and gathering.
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São Luís, Maranhão: Replanting the Urban Amazon Forest |
To get a bird’s eye view of the park, we have to compete with the vultures that alight amid plastic sacks in the makeshift neighborhood dump. Young men loiter across the way in front of a dilapidated shack that passes for the corner bar. The valley below shows signs of incursions by poor families like the ones who have mounted the favela that surrounds us on higher ground. Follow us on a visit to Bacanga State Park in São Luís, Maranhão.
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Amazon Film: Amazonas Film Festival |
Near the muddy waters of the Amazon River, with main events in the city's famous opera house, the Amazonas Film Festival offers a full week-long schedule which includes not only new feature films but short documentaries, videos and workshops.
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| Môa River, Acre, by Paula Sampaio (2006 Porto Seguro Photography Prize) |
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