Farms: Harvesting Brazil Nuts and Timber in the Peruvian Amazon
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It's a controversial question - can selective logging coexist with Brazil nut harvesting? As part of their livelihoods, many of Peru's Brazil nut concession holders currently do both, but it's not yet know what effect timber harvesting is having on Brazil nut production. To find out, CIFOR researchers and local university students are working in Madre de Dios alongside harvesters in the concessions, measuring nut production and logging impacts. To learn more, and for more stories of CIFOR's work in the Amazon, visit http://blog.cifor.org/amazon MUSIC: Special thanks to composer Oscar Alberto Macedo Mejia for allowing us to use his songs "Hermano Nativo" and "Pueblo Viejo", from an album composed for the centenary of Madre de Dios. Email: omacedo63@hotmail.com Phone (Peru): 966382109
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I am from India. I am not getting Brazil nuts here plz tell me how can I get fresh Brazil nuts.
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I was not knowing much about brazilian nuts .
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what is brail nut tree in Spanish I need to know what it is?
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Can we eat as many as we want? I read somewhere that we should eat only one a day, and if we ate 11 or 12 we can overdose and start voliting and having food poisoning...please tell me if this is true? I still haven't eaten them but I'm planning on getting some right away.
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Couldn't we help save the rainforests by making Brazil nuts more popular?! I have been thinking that since I read about them coming from mature trees in the wild rather than a farm. I think if there was an ad campaign like pistachios has AND where they come from they would have to leave areas untouched!
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very interesting... would love to see the results of this research, both short term and long term results...