Amazon Basin

In the Amazon Basin, an amazing plant called Ayahuasca, which is an entheogenic brew made out of Banisteriopsis caapi vine, and often in combination with various other plants. The word "Ayahuasca", from the Quechua language, means "vine of the souls". [1] For centuries, Amazonian shamans have used Ayahuasca as a window into the soul. The main reason it can change human brain and consciousness is that the plant contains a substance called DMT. N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is an illegal, psychedelic

lowland Pacific Coast, the Andes Mountains, the Amazon rainforest, and the Galapagos Islands, are each home to a wide variety of plant and animal species. These many distinct ecosystems and the hundreds of endemic species residing within Ecuador’s borders have led scientists to classify it as a biodiversity “hotspot”. Ecuador’s rich biodiversity and

Yanomamo Paper Assignment      Napoleon Chagnon has spent about 60 months since 1964 studying the ‘foot people’ of the Amazon Basin known as the Yanomamo. In his ethnography, Yanomamo, he describes all of the events of his stay in the Venezuelan jungle. He describes the “hideous” appearance of the Yanomamo men when first meeting them, and their never-ending demands for Chagnon’s foreign goods, including his food. There are many issues that arise when considering Chagnon’s

Leslie Sponsel takes a remarkably sensible approach to certain academic controversies over anthropological investigation of the Amazon Basin. To some degree, Sponsel's article demands to be understood in a larger context within the overall ecosystem of academic anthropology, so to speak. As indicated in the title of her article, Sponsel approaches the subject with a special focus on "adaptation," which necessarily implies changing conditions. As she notes in her introductory remarks: For convenience

Trees and any plantation for that matter are often taken for granted as they provide many of the essentials such as photosynthesis regulation, habitat, food, and even save ground to build construction. However, as more people demand more, more space will be needed and cutting away the trees for humans to use. Deforestation is the act of cutting and clearing a large area of trees. It is the cause of extreme damage to the ecosystem and sustainability of life. Deforestation is negatively affecting the

and the second largest portion of the Amazon Forest Basin (US AID, 2011). Its heterogeneity creates such a dire situation for Peru in terms of climate change and the effects it has on each individual system as well as the effects on wildlife and human occupants that live in these regions. In Peru, the climate changes that have been taking place have led to several disastrous outcomes that include not only draught, but have also led to depletion of the Amazon Rain Forest, an increase in disease, extreme

common in underdeveloped countries. Shikanai-Yasuda and Carvalho (2012) concluded the etiologic agent of the disease forms in the blood and fluid of infected animals and humans and is transmitted at the bite sites of the triatomine bugs feces. The Amazon Basin in Brazil has experienced another form of transmission, orally, which is now considered the principal form of Chagas disease in the country. The outbreaks of orally transmitted Chagas in Brazil have been linked to food, sugar cane juice, water

an unsafe pilot? Did he properly analyze the risk and manage it prior to his flights into the jungle? By all means, he most likely did by the evidence that he safety landed a single engine Piper aircraft on a beach deep in the jungles of the Amazon basin where no-one from our world had ever been. In reality, it was not much different than when Neil Armstrong’s step of faith onto the surface of the moon. He managed his risk after carefully assessing the jungle on multiple flights where he had

Did you know that there are two Americas? North America and South America are two of the seven continents on Earth. We live in North America, while a Brazilian is from South America. These two continents have more things in common than their names, yet they are two vastly different continents. North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere.South America is a continent located in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere

cycle leading to a decrease in transpiration and increase in temperature. Such rise in temperature leads to lack of rainfall, increase droughts and forest fires to which the fires will disrupt the water cycle even more. The effects of deforestation on Amazon forest resilience research by Zemp et al. (2017), build upon previous research done in the field of forestry studies and used similar methods to collect data. Although they have come to some shortcomings such as the risk of underestimating the differences