José Francisco Conceição started harvesting Brazil nuts on his small family plot in the Amazon forest 32 years ago. It wasn’t until a few months ago that he actually made enough of a profit from his ...

The Brazil nut, an icon of the Amazon and the base of many Brazilian livelihoods, is under threat. What's happening? As reported by Mongabay, Brazil's recent nut harvest season has been one of the ...

Explore the unique world of Brazil nut harvesting in the Bolivian Amazon, where the rewards are hard-earned.

Also referred to as a Brazilian nut, Brazil nuts are large, nutrient-rich nuts that come from the Brazil nut tree grown in the Amazon rainforest, says nutritionist Nataly Komova, RD, nutritionist ...

Jorge Cantuarias has paid thousands of dollars a year since 2020 to more than 700 families in the Peruvian Amazon to preserve the rainforest while they harvest Brazil nuts. The money came from the ...

The town of Alerta, on the Interocenianic Highway, is near the Brazilian border. Most of the people there are either engaged in illegal logging or in the 100-year-old tradition of Brazil nut ...

Some 80,000 Indigenous families make a living from Brazil nut collection in the Bolivian Amazon, according to Luis Larrea of the ACEAA Amazonian conservation association.

Using advanced genomic techniques, the researchers comprehensively analysed total sequence variants of 270 Brazil Nut tree samples with known archaeological evidence at different locations to ...

Genomic Analyses Reveal the Importance of Indigenous Management Practices Using advanced genomic techniques, the researchers comprehensively analysed total sequence variants of 270 Brazil Nut tree ...