Thousands of dirt roads crisscross the Brazilian Amazon, serving ranchers, loggers and miners. The area’s fragile waterways — and the spectacular fish that live in them — pay a high price.
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Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém
The Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi is a Brazilian research institution located in the city of Belém, state of Pará. It was founded in 1866 by Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna as the Pará Museum of Natural History and Ethnography, and was later named in honor of Swiss naturalist Émil August Goeldi, who reorganized the institution and was its director from 1894 to 1905.
As part of its mission of researching, cataloging and analyzing the biological and sociocultural diversity of the Amazon Basin, the institution offers a post-graduate degree program in Amazonian sciences, which is supported by the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. The Museu maintains a scientific research station in the high Amazon forest (Estação Científica Ferreira Penna), which was inaugurated in 1993, with 330 square kilometres (130 sq mi) in the Caxiuanã National Forest, municipality of Melgaço, Pará.
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Land animals were able to find refuge in the depths of the forest. But aquatic species weren’t so lucky.
