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Brazil Biodiversity Partnership
The Brazil Biodiversity Partnership (BBP) is a Brazilian-American joint venture targeted to students, professors, groups or individuals committed to environmental and cultural studies. The BBP provides first-hand, field experience of some of the complex sustainability challenges facing Brazil and its indigenous people today.
Brazil presents a microcosm of all the world's environmental challenges while containing the world's largest forest, greatest biodiversity, largest indigenous population, widest diversity of plants, and broadest use and production of plants and animals.
We arrange guided expeditions to native preserves that are usually deemed off-limits to the general population in areas such as the Amazon Rain Forest, the Cerrado (Brazil's central scrubland), and the Atlantic Rain Forest.
We conduct expeditions once a year in June (Brazil's cool, dry season). The expeditions are educational and participatory. The guided tours include lectures, seminars, demonstrations and practicum. Participants will encounter indigenous peoples, rubber tappers, family-owned farms and farmers, and traditional rural producers. The tour will address topics of sustainability and conservation, the production of crops, and threatened species and game and wild animal management.
The BBP believes that it is through personal experience and direct contact with environmental systems that people become engaged and committed. Awareness is the first step. Our hope is that the experience will inspire participants to further study and engagement.
Brazil presents a microcosm of all the world's environmental challenges while containing the world's largest forest, greatest biodiversity, largest indigenous population, widest diversity of plants, and broadest use and production of plants and animals.
We arrange guided expeditions to native preserves that are usually deemed off-limits to the general population in areas such as the Amazon Rain Forest, the Cerrado (Brazil's central scrubland), and the Atlantic Rain Forest.
We conduct expeditions once a year in June (Brazil's cool, dry season). The expeditions are educational and participatory. The guided tours include lectures, seminars, demonstrations and practicum. Participants will encounter indigenous peoples, rubber tappers, family-owned farms and farmers, and traditional rural producers. The tour will address topics of sustainability and conservation, the production of crops, and threatened species and game and wild animal management.
The BBP believes that it is through personal experience and direct contact with environmental systems that people become engaged and committed. Awareness is the first step. Our hope is that the experience will inspire participants to further study and engagement.