A forest worth more standing: Virgilio Viana on what It will take to protect the Amazon

Mongabay
Nov 21, 2025, 1:11 am114 ptsTrending
The first time Virgilio Viana saw the Amazon up close, he was a 16-year-old with a backpack, two school friends and very little sense of what he was walking into. They arrived by land, drifting along dirt roads that had more potholes than surface, then continued by riverboat as the forest thickened around…

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